patch Ring-necked Duck

just arrived back from Manchester airport to hear that the drake Ring-necked Duck has relocated to Bridge pit on the patch -- poor light and a quick visit hopefully it will hang around for a while -- the last local pits bird was amazingly as long back as 2003 when a drake stayed from late April through to early June so there is a precedent

record shots indeed

drake Ring-necked Duck along with some bits of a Red-crested Pochard x Pochard hybrid and a small flock of R C P's

Black Guillemot and Ring-necked Duck

truly micro dot images of my first Lincs Black Guillemot and a very dull late afternoon female Ring-necked Duck we picked up on the way home at Kirkby Pits -- wonder how many birders really look at that place with any regularity -- oh it Lincs