Friday, March 20, 2009







Seaforth NR,

This hybrid drake ring-necked duck was a very smart bird. Arriving with a small group of tufted duck it was showing well as it was displaying with other drake tufted duck to a female tufted duck. A closer look at the wing bar revealed white secondries and it should be all grey in pure ring necked duck.
A little ringed plover and a ringed plover were on the salt water pool and a white wag and wheatear were on the long bank.
Chris D reports swallow, sand martin and wheatear at Prescot reservoir today.

4 comments:

Nick Patel said...

wow great pics of the RN duck, love that green shimmer on it.

Cheers,

Nick.

Steve Tomlinson said...

Thanks Nick This bird is a hybrid. Rind n duck should have an all grey wingbar and this bird has white in the wing bar,
Cheers Steve

Nick Patel said...

Is it a RN duck X Scaup - the Green head?

cheers.

Steve Tomlinson said...

It could be but I really dont know.