GEDSER - 31st October

A perfect ringing day, calm and completely overcast but it was unfortunately pretty quiet in the garden as we only managed 50 new birds with a small influx of 21 Blackbirds the only real feature of the morning with 3 Northern Bullfinches (well, the male was certainly Northern but the two females caught were borderline – wing lengths of 85 and 86) and a Mistle Thrush providing the quality.

There was little else to mention through the day really with a few Chaffinches, Bramblings and Siskins over the garden in the first few hours of the morning along with a handful of Redpolls, Yellowhammers, Skylarks and Mistle Thrushes while a group of 5 Little Gulls and a few Barnacle and Brent Geese flocks were also of note.

 

Yellowhammer

Beautiful, black billed 1st winter male `northern` Blackbird