GEDSER - 16th July

Arrived at a very grey and windy Gedser at lunchtime after an unremarkable journey (bar a puncture in The Netherlands and heavy traffic going past Hamburg!); a little walk to the point mid-afternoon produced 300+ Eiders and 120+ Common Scoter heading SE, a Common Sandpiper, a juvenile Yellow Wagtail and a few Sandwich Terns with three juvenile Kestrels and some alarming and food carrying Blue-headed Wagtails nearby.

Migrating Eiders were a big feature of the spring I spent here at Gedser in 2014; I don't know if the 300 which flew past the point this afternoon were actually migrating back or whether they were just moving around between feeding areas, they had the feel of migrants though?

The Eiders loafing at the point included this pale, leucistic female

The Sand Martins were active around their burrows in the cliff at the tip

Juvenile Kestrel

Juvenile Yellow Wagtail (almost certainly a Blue-headed) on the beach at the tip