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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alexjh1" data-source="post: 3407991" data-attributes="member: 85555">That trip to Japan was right at the beginning of Winter so I don't think ducks had really accumulated yet: did pretty well for ducks on the sea but didn't really get any freshwater birding done.  Bit of a shame, I would have liked some closer views of Baikal teal than my Cambridgeshire one too.As for the others - my main encounter with Barnacle geese is (what I understand to be) a feral flock on Derwant Water, Greylag geese I may have seen true wild ones at some point but can't confidently say I have (ones on the Swale maybe?) and Osprey I've only ever seen at Rutland.   Just remembered I have seen some Red Kites in Wales though, but as I live in Northants 99.9% of my Red Kite sightings are going to be from the reintroduction program.</blockquote>