Reports of a Ferruginous Duck at Stanwick were intriguing enough to tempt Alan Shorrock and I over towards Stanwick Lakes this morning. Although there was a chance that the bird was a hybrid and an equal chance that it may have been an escape we decided that it was worth taking a trip over anyway. It all turned out to be academic anyway as the bird whatever its lineage or origins didn't show.
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| Female Scaup and drake Goosander. |
Despite the ducky dip we managed to see enough birds to make it a worthwhile visit and the star today was another duck. A female Scaup has been in residence on the main lake for quite a while now and we were lucky enough to get some good views of her before she swam off out of view. Goosanders are some of my favourite ducks and happily for me there were quite a few spread around the lakes, I counted at least fourteen but there may have been more.
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| Tufted Ducks and Gadwalls. |
Ducks were not the only point of interest as we had both Golden Plover and five Redshanks as we walked around as well as the almost obligatory Great White Egret. A singing Cetti's Warbler was my first for a while and a Water Rail squealed from the same bed of reeds. The promise of rain and some prior appointments meant that time was limited and so we left a little after noon.
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| Great White Egret. |
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