I won’t be heading up to Oshamambe/Yakumo for a couple of weeks and by then the ports will probably be empty of ducks as they will have headed north…
Yesterday both Black Scoter and Great Scaup were abundant.
The last port Call
Tag: Great Scaup
A default port bird
A quiet lazy Sunday but I stopped by one of the local ports and there were some Scaup diving and catching fish…
Winter birds arriving
Lots of common winter gulls and ducks around now as well as the first swans and geese.
A very quiet last 3 weeks for various reasons, these photos were all just outside town this afternoon.
The Funny Side
Even with the global pandemic and all the nonsense going on in America over the last 2 months this Scaup still found the time to have a good laugh today.
While I was waiting
There were quite a few birds in the port whilst I was waiting in vain for the Steller’s Sea Eagle to move…….
Red-breasted Merganser, Scaup, Common Goldeneye, Black-necked Grebe, Pelagic Cormorant and Glaucous-winged Gull to be exact.
A sunny day in the port
There were a group of Great Scaup in the harbour at Yakumo diving and coming up with what looked like bits of Salmon. I guess some Salmon aiming for the river got lost and ended up perishing in the port………….
The Scaup were joined by a lone Pochard who got in on the act too.
