are there any pictures of this bird,im very intrested because the day before this bird was reported,l saw a bird at alocal site in cheshire (frodsham)which when first seen was resting on the water with its head down, seen at some distance and into the sun l id as a male scaup.A good hour later ,on our way back had another look,this time it was awake and much closer,it was not a scaup as the head shape was all wrong and it looked smaller,thought of a hybrid,but never considered Lesser Scaup (idiot)?,the bird was bugging me after l was dropped off,in fact alarm bells were going off, Looked at a few guides ,confirmed what l first thought as a male pochard/ female tuftie hybrid,but needed to look at the bill,went back next day but had gone as had a good number of tufties .The timing is spot on,only 65/70 miles ,so if any one has a picture and could post on this thead would be very intrested to have a look cheers dave
