Sunday, April 17, 2011

Black Scoter

I have just read up Martin Garner's piece about Black Scoter in his book 'Frontiers in Birding' and see that he mentions that they look bigger than Common Scoter due to them sitting higher in the water. I thought it looked larger [see notes] but didn't notice it being higher up. Possibly due to it being constantly on the go when I was there...The bill opening it is strange too. I haven't seen anything like this from other seaduck...

I forgot to mention yesterday that I had 15+ Waxwings at Ashington the other day still, and last night a Whimbrel was calling in the dark at 11pm over our garden....

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