Simply Red (and Crested)

Once again with interest across our own Recording Area amounting to no more than a couple or 3

MALLARD

HERRING GULL

braving the marauders plus the now resident

MUTE SWANS
down south and the north throwing up no more than the first

Mountain of Fencing Panels
along with poor views of a single

REDWING
it was time to play the Ace up our sleave! With 'rare Ducks' at Longham Lake our visit started

with a far better look at
GREY HERON

than the extremely distant 'first of the year bird'.

Once a Mega-Rarity itself in Great Britain it is now almost impossible to miss

GEAT WHITE EGRET
but we had already spotted the objects of our desire but as usual with such things
just about as far away as they could possibly be!

Some consider such things as

RED-CRESTED POCHARD

as 'plastic' which describs a bird as "not of wild origin" maybe escaped from captivity

or due to it World distribution unlikely to be of wild stock we don't subscribe to the theory.

RED-CRESTED POCHARD female

and male

and talk about a lucky break

caught in the 5 second act of copulation!
Aware of being accused of 'overload',

it would be a shame

just to delete the remaining stills and vids!

fem diving

and feeding.

All else were the Doorstep
BLACKBIRDs

awaiting their mid-day hand-out.