GEDSER - 17th November

Bright and sunny again through the morning with the southerly wind still annoyingly brisk for my last day at Gedser; the only birds in the nets were Redpolls attracted by the playback and comprised 24 Common and 11 Lesser Redpolls – the majority were big, obvious pale birds with wings up to 81 but there was a scattering of really obvious Lessers, small and dark with wing lengths down to 69.

There were a few other birds around with a few Chaffinches, Bramblings and Greenfinches overhead along with one flock of c50 Waxwings and a single Red Kite while in the garden there were still 3 Northern Bullfinches (all ringed) and a Woodcock.

A walk north up the coast was pretty quiet, albeit pleasant in the sunny conditions with 4 Little Gulls feeding along the tide line while out across the fields there was an adult male Hen Harrier, a Rough-legged Buzzard and an adult male Peregrine while several small flocks of Waxwings whizzed about.

 

Little Gulls

Surely this Hedgehog should have been sleeping by now but he seemed happy, running around eating fallen fruit!