Ducks
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Masie with one of her cygnets May 2023
Flying practice November 2024
Adventuring cygnets June 2024
Time to get back to the lake
Masie resting June 2024
Masie and cygnet resting June 2024
Cygnet resting June 2023
Cormorant in breeding whites February 2024
Oystercatchers and young ones May 2024
Dancing lapwings May 2024
Ross's Goose, Frampton June 2024
Shoveler ducks are winter visitors
This is Britains commonest duck the Mallard
Its like a mirror!
Lots of colours in the right light
A Goosander visits most years - feisty fish eating duck. This is a female scaring off the Mallards.
Here's the Goosander doing the flappy thing most ducks do.
We get a couple of Canada Geese most years. We called these ones Bonnie and Clyde as I remember it. In the wetlands around Severn Estuary they get hundreds.
Mandarins, the males in particular, are the most colourful of ducks. This one visited in May 2025.
And again on October 2025
Young Black Headed Gull - they will fish but are not great at it.
A little gull - smallest and most agile.
With a black headed gull to show the difference
Common Terns feeding. Very agile flyers and divers - great to watch.
Little Egret having difficulty with an Eel for dinner.
A cattle egret
Males display like this in the late summer here.
Wood Sandpipers - unassuming looking but rare enough here to get folks traveling in from miles around to see them.
In the park here we usually get a Common Sandpiper or two a year.
Little Grebe or Dabchick - a diving Christmas Pudding :)
All the Grebes I've seen periodically fluff up like this.
A Bittern at Slimbridge looking wary
They do a good impression of a reed!