GEDSER - 22nd August

Bright and breezy with a brisk South-westerly wind limiting things a little bit but there were still decent numbers of migrants in the nets with 68 new birds caught; the most notable being a small influx of 15 Pied Flycatchers along with 4 Marsh Warblers and 4 Icterine Warblers with single figures of most other common migrants.   Other birds seen included a few Tree Pipits first thing, a Sparrowhawk, 3 Green Sandpipers (which spent a short time on the pond) and single Great-spotted Woodpecker and Nuthatch.

Not much else seen during this quiet day with a walk round Kroghage late afternoon producing small numbers of the usual migrants such as Red-backed Shrike, Redstart, Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher etc.

 

Some average pictures of some of the migrants at Kroghage in the dull evening light; Red-backed Shrike, Spotted Flycatcher and a waving Pied Flycatcher