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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MTem" data-source="post: 3171667" data-attributes="member: 107707">First let me apologise for the poorer than necessary image quality. The twonk on the camera (set on shutter priority) didn't notice he had turned the setting to 1/3200 sec, so at 200m+ on a cloudy day the focussed depth of field was about a quarter of an inch ......That said this duck was on an inland lake at Warnham NR near Horsham, South England with a group of about 30 male and female Tufted duck and Pochard. With only binoculars the white 'face' stood out and the bill looked to have less of a black tip than the others ...... but when I enlarged my crappy photos it does look more like a normal female tuftie bill and plumage.Any contrary views before I log it as a 'White-fronted Tuftie'?I think a Scaup would be unusual and perhaps a first for this location, but I cannot find a list for the Reserve online.</blockquote>