Pennington Flash

I called in at the Flash at lunch time for a second look at the Lesser Scaup, and thank goodness I did! It was much closer than on my previous visit and even better, it was awake!

I managed to fire off a few half decent photos of the bird.

 

 

With a female or young male Tufted Duck which was following it around. It did spark a debate about whether or not we had a pair of Lesser Scaup, but the female type bird has the wrong head shape, the wrong bill pattern and even has a bit of a tuft, so unfortunately it will just have to go down as Tufted duck.

I wanted to try to get a shot of the bird which was clearly identifiable as being at Pennington Flash.

 

A close look at the female type Tuftie.