#Shelduck

2025-11-17

Some unexpected visitors to a local wetland reserve this week; six Ruddy Shelduck.
Native to Asia, these guys must have followed the wrong migration.
They are very beautiful birds, though.

Kiltonga Nature Reserve, Newtownards, Northern Ireland.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlife #bird #birds #waterbirds #duck #shelduck #ruddyshelduck #kiltonga #newtownards #NorthernIreland @wwtworldwide @RSPB

Ruddy Shelduck
Gonzoyjgonzo
2025-08-26

One of these is not like the others.
Four shelducks and a little ringed plover in flight, taken Sunday at
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Four shelducks (Tadorna tadorna) and a little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) in flight.
Radjah Shelduck (Radjah radjah) resting on grass. The duck has distinctive plumage: a dark chocolate-brown head, neck, and upper chest contrasting with white flanks and wing coverts. Its bill is pale with a black patch, and the bird is laying down, nestled comfortably in vibrant green grass.
Shot at WWT Martin Mere near Burscough, UK.
#MyPhoto #MyWork #photo #photography #RadjahShelduck #RadjahRadjah #duck #shelduck #BrownAndWhitePlumage #TropicalDuck #Grass #WetlandHabitat #RestingDuck #bird #CloseUp #nature #wildlife #outdoors #summer #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdsOfPixelfed #MastoBirds #PixelBirds #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #DuckPhotography #DucksOfMastodon #DucksOfPixelfed #WWT #MartinMere #WWTMartinMere #OC
Radjah Shelduck (Radjah radjah) resting on green grass, showing its dark brown head and white body plumage.
2025-05-26
Common shelduck gliding in the sky, background of trees.

New on my #blog: aspi.blog/2025/04/26/surrey-v-
A look at goings on at The Oval in the current round of championship fixtures, a composite Surrey/ Somerset XI and two #photo galleries.
#cricket ]#CountyCricket #CountyChampionship #SurreyvSomerset #SURvSOM #AllTimeXIs #photography #birds #insects #bees #butterflies #beetles #shelduck

2025-03-02
Thought they had all left for the summer. Was a lovely surprise to see a few stragglers still to migrate

#shelduck #bird #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #photography #amateurphotography
2025-02-17
Our first spotting of the pintail ducks in amongst the shelducks and shovelers. Ducks are quickly becoming one of my favourites with all the variety they bring.

#pintail #ducks #shovelers #shelduck #bird #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #photography #amateurphotography
2024-12-20

Struggling to get your ducks in a row this #FourDuckFriday? Mine aren't just mismatched and out of line, two of them aren't even ducks!

#Shelduck #Avocet #DuckOfTheDay #Duck #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2024

All in poorly lit grey looking water - in the lower right, a nondescript small brown duck nibbling at the surface; in the centre, a shelduck with its head stretched out under water; behind it and to the left, overlapping, two avocets, the closer with its head also under water; the one behind it, largely hidden by its body, has its head up.
2024-12-10

#TwoDuckTuesday reminds you that #EgyptianGeese are #NotAGoose, they are #Ducks; a sort of #Shelduck. They still get called a #Goose though: I think they should rebrand as #EgyptianDucks

#EgptianGoose #EyptianDuck #Duck #DuckOfTheDay #LowCarbonBirding #UrbanBirding #BirdsSeenIn2024

Two Egyptian geese standing on the edge of a river, one sensibly in profile and the other facing the camera with its neck stretched out... perhaps it is about to charge?!
MartoonLeMartoon
2024-11-04

Septembird 24 - Day 11 - Bird:. here is the sherlock holmes of old ducks.

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