#shovelers

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
Simon Wilkswibble
2023-01-28

today was retrospectively cancelled for reasons of feet and ennui.

So here's a blurry picture of three I found earlier in the week - along with two Tufted Ducks, a Black-Headed Gull and a bored pair of Moorhens.

A matching pair of Shoveler ducks, stand on a frozen lake (and their own reflections). The male has a large dark bill, a golden eye, a green head, white chest, brown flanks, black tail-feathers and wings of grey with flashes of green. The female has a large orange bill, a dark eye and mottled brown plumage. Both have orange legs.
Above them flies a male in eclipse plumage, with a brown head and wings, its tail fanned to reveal white feathers either side of the black ones.

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