Gedser Fuglestation Blog
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Tricky conditions
A strong SW wind through the morning limited how many nets I could open so the conditions only yielded 19 new birds including 3 Icterine Warblers (young, unmoulted, local juveniles, not migrants), 3 Redstarts and 6 Lesser Whitethroats. A Turnstone and some Crossbills were heard going over the garden somewhere in the wind.
A couple of hours out on the point (1300-1500) in the now even stronger winds produced a few bits, highlighted by an Osprey heading south low over the sea while other birds included 2 Wood Sandpipers, a Dunlin, 5 Whimbrel, 29 Common Terns, 6 Arctic Terns, 62 Sandwich Terns, a Velvet Scoter, 31 Tufted Ducks, 32 Teal, 7 Common Scoter, a Great-crested Grebe, a juvenile Marsh Harrier and 10 Swifts; the most unusual sighting though was a Red Squirrel gambolling around right out on the tip, seemingly with out a care in the world!
Today's meagre totals comprised - 3 Redstart / Roedstjert; 1 Blackbird / Solsort; 3 Icterine Warbler / Gulbug; 6 Lesser Whitethroat / Gaerdesanger; 1 Whitethroat / Tornsanger; 3 Willow Warbler / Loevsanger; 1 Great Tit / Musvit; 1 Linnet / Tornirisk
I then walked north a little bit to see if there were any more raptors heading south and managed another Osprey, a Sparrowhawk and 5+ Kestrels (although these weren’t migrating) along with a few Terns offshore and 3 Common Sandpipers while the Goosander flock had risen to 41.