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  1. Andy Hurley

    Duck ID, NE Germany1st week Oct 2020

    May be you should do you thinking with more depth. It seemed to me that you were acusing me of scaring the duck in question. This, without being present at the time. The WTE were not mentioned, because I hadn't connected the reason it had a long neck, as I was scoping geese at the time it was taken.
  2. Andy Hurley

    Duck ID, NE Germany1st week Oct 2020

    There are plenty of these in N and NE Germany and are by no means a rare occurence. We see them regularly. The duck, that didn't appear to have the pox, looked very long-necked. It was something interesting to the photographer, especially when the neck length seemed longer than the body length...
  3. Andy Hurley

    Duck ID, NE Germany1st week Oct 2020

    Thanks very much for all contributors to the thread. I wondered about the elongated neck, which put me off a positive I.D. Not knowing about the cause, my wife took this photo, while I was scoping geese to the left as I saw a solitary Bean Goose at the edge of a flock of Greylag Geese. We saw...
  4. Andy Hurley

    Duck ID, NE Germany1st week Oct 2020

    Thanks for doing it Alexander! I'm not so good at such things myself, so I left it as taken and only cropped. I don't like the auto improve button my software has.
  5. Andy Hurley

    Duck ID, NE Germany1st week Oct 2020

    ...and the next back on the water. No, we were in an observation platform and try and avoid such behaviour. This is at extreme range of a 500 mm lense. It was one of several White tailed Eagles that are in the area. 1 Adult and 2 1st years, going by tail pattern. There is a road leading to the...
  6. Andy Hurley

    Duck ID, NE Germany1st week Oct 2020

    Please help identify this rather long necked looking duck, seen in Meckpom, NE Germany last week. Thanks for your help!
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