Thursday, 3 November 2016

GEDSER - 3rd November

A gorgeous day calm and sunny with a bit of a frost first thing but the nets and the skies were a bit disappointingly quiet; we managed 40 new birds through the morning which did include a few nice bits with a Firecrest, 2 Northern Bullfinches and 13 Long-tailed Tits – 9 of which were the lovely white-headed Northern birds.   The sky was very quiet with just a handful of Chaffinches, Bramblings, Greenfinches and Siskins, a couple of Jackdaw flocks which came in off and the odd Yellowhammer, Redpoll and Reed Bunting.

                A walk up the coast in the afternoon was also quiet with just a Ring Ouzel in a hedge at Birkemose, 3 White Wagtails on the beach and 9 Little Gulls offshore of note.
 

A selection of Long-tailed Tits caught today included some pure white-headed ones, some intergrades and a couple more resembling europaeus birds

Firecrest

Northern Bullfinch


Northern Long-tailed Tits

Buzzard
 

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