Ducks are a-Dabbling Up Tails All

 As the name suggests

SCARCE PROMINENT

is up there on the 'wants list' of most who participate in such things
and when sending the images off to higher authority just to be sure we were not dreaming.
This is in fact the 'second' specimen of this creature we have secured here! Not content with that alone we also caught

EARLY GREY

new for the year.

Again not much of a day for being out there with the return of the rain but the hungry must be fed and with Waterfowl most prominent our attention was drawn to them.

While elsewhere MUTE SWANs have laid eggs between our 2 resident pairs not a stick has been lifted in an attempt to even lay the foundations of a nest.

At the other end of the scale a pair of

LITTLE GREBE
on each of the northern ponds are in the act of noisily displaying while as has been reported before the

EGYPTIAN GEESE
have alread brought off young and there are likely to be more as today's count amounted to 12 adult individuals an the Moors River alone!

While what amounts to a long staying 'pair' GADWALL have never been proven to breed across our area, which also applies to both

SHOVELER

 (male)

(female)

and

TEAL
while a fair bet would be that both

CANADA GEESE
+

GOSLINGs

GREYLAG

GEESE
and surely

MALLARD