Songkhran
Well-known member
So Josh,
I have seen your blog and agree that the 'Scaupy thing' is ugly. Has everyone ruled out an ugly Scaup?
I know it is sad to care too much but I spent far too many years birding in London reservoirs and having not much else to look at rather than various Aythya hybrids..including some that seemed to have bits of Ring necked in them (duck not parakeet that is...although that would be interesting!)
Anyway.... its winter ...just craving some ID challenges. Lets get a 'turtle dove' in Norfolk, like the one in Holland right now. That would be fun
ah mate i'm not knocking hybrids at all, think their weirdness is beguiling, they are either like one of the kids books where you turn the different pages to create a new creature - a hipporillaroo - that sort of thing. Either that or they are like mythical beasts - half this half that, the Gypo X Shelduck saw last week was cool i'll look for it next time i'm off, just that i'd rather have a laugh at their grotesqueness/bizarreness rather than think to hard about how they got conceived!