Taken this August I have tried to find matching pictures but I am struggling. The first may be a young gull of some plumage, but I am not confident as have seen nothing like this before. I think the tern is a common tern. The duck seems almost totally brown so again I have not seen his but guessing a female gadwall or mallard, or maybe a male gadwall. Not enough experience for these ones !
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Rutland Water birds (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Mike Tom
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Jane Turner
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The Duck is a Red crested Pochard, you are right with the gull. The tern gave me a fright.....
The underwing however is perfect for Common tern and I am guessing the apparently drooping heavy orange bill is artefact (but will check what the underwing of an elegant tern should look like as a precaution)
The underwing however is perfect for Common tern and I am guessing the apparently drooping heavy orange bill is artefact (but will check what the underwing of an elegant tern should look like as a precaution)
Thanks Jane. How exciting. Never seen a Red Crested Pochard before, probably why I could not indentify it. What sort of gull is it ?
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
The Gull is a juvenile Black-headed.
lou salomon
the birdonist
structure wrong for elegant - it's a common tern, underwing pattern fits, red bill is 'blown up' as a photographic artefact.
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
1 Common Terns
2 Red-crested Pochard, eclipse plumage male (combo of red bill + female-type plumage)
3 Black-headed Gull, recently fledged juvenile
2 Red-crested Pochard, eclipse plumage male (combo of red bill + female-type plumage)
3 Black-headed Gull, recently fledged juvenile
