Help with a particular duck in grange over sands (Cumbria) today. (1 Viewer)

[She’ll not av feathers on]

I’m having a few days up in the lakes and when I was out with the Mrs earlier we wandered through an ornamental park which has various species of (to me anyway) unusual and exotic ducks. Bar headed goose, Muscovy and this little fella or lady perched on a branch in the pond. Apologies for the blurriness but this was as far in as I could zoom with my iPhone.

Anyone any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[foresttwitcher]

Looks like a drake Wood Duck.

 

[She’ll not av feathers on]

Oh ok. I tried putting the picture on Merlin and it gave me that option but it seems to think they’re only present in North America so I sort of discounted that.

 

[dantheman]

They're fairly widely kept in waterfowl collections. There have been very rare instances of transatlantic vagrants, but if there are other exotic/fancy wildfowl in the ornamental park the greatest likellihood wouldn't be that it's a genuine wild vagrant ...