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[mbrtopaz]

red crested pochard

March 21 weather has been a bit of a wash out and to make it worse i had to work as well. So after lunch decided to skive off and pop down to my local spot. Missed out on a smew a fortnight ago but today made it all better. Arrived at Bolton on swale N.R got settled in the hide and started scanning. Curlew;oystercatcher;lapwing;cormorant;grelags;canadas;mute swan;teal pochard;wigeon;coot;moorhen;shelduck;mallard;ruddy duck;tufted duck;little grebe;great crested grebe;and the icing was a wonderful male red crested pochard. So it just goes to show you think your having a bad day and blam one lucky spot and its all forgotten about. Happy birding.............

 

[cjay]

Graet Birds Red Crested Pochards, Saw one yesterday in South suffolk. They do seem to be seen more often but are all probably escapes.

CJ

 

[Darren Oakley-Martin]

Graet Birds Red Crested Pochards, Saw one yesterday in South suffolk. They do seem to be seen more often but are all probably escapes.

CJ

Re: Non-plastic Red-crested Pochards.

Is the behaviour of the bird a clincher?

I heard there had been a few recognised 'genuine' birds in the UK.

We have 2 on the river in Bedford. Both drakes. They look daft in my humble opinion. There's a rumour going around that they are gay!

 

[Michael Frankis]

They do seem to be seen more often but are all probably escapes.

There's a big feral population in the Netherlands & Germany, and a lot of British Red-crested Pochards probably derive from there, so most are as 'tickable' as Little Owls, Pheasants, Canada Geese, etc

There's a rumour going around that they are gay!

There's quite a lot of good scientific evidence for the existence of gay birds & animals, so why not?

Michael

 

[Darren Oakley-Martin]

There's quite a lot of good scientific evidence for the existence of gay birds & animals, so why not?

Michael

Indeed, they can happily be gay for all I care, live and let live I say.

Still think they are daft though!

Do I remember a report about 2 chimpanzees being lesbians? In China or somewhere? Or did I dream it?

Perhaps this belongs in RF.........................

 

[Michael Frankis]

Hi Darren,

I've not read the book, but it'll likely be in here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312192398/qid=1079897933/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-0557038-9488904?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Michael

 

[Darren Oakley-Martin]

reminds me of something Dave said last night when I told him there were 2 male Ravens about the area.

Gayvens.

ha!
must stop.

 

[deboo]

Dragged down again!!....
I'm sorry.... but you know how it is eh folk?...
My sexuality is now in the open forum...so what!
'''sing if you're glad to be gay".....

love and hugs

Dave.

 

[Darren Oakley-Martin]

just to prove I wasn't making up the lesbian chimpanzee thing:

http://www.thestranger.com/2001-04-05/savage.html

 

[pduxon]

Graet Birds Red Crested Pochards, Saw one yesterday in South suffolk. They do seem to be seen more often but are all probably escapes.

CJ

Colin, I'm sure I've seen an RCP with young. Do you count them if you think they are escapes?

 

[Steve Lister]

Way back in the seventies I seem to remember that people more or less accepted that wild Red-crested Pochards did turn up at Hornsea Mere in Yorkshire and at Abberton in Essex - I never understood why those sites and not others along the east coast - but now there are so many breeding ferally that there is no way of knowing where they come from, unless there is any evidence from ringing??

Steve