Tundra Bean Goose. It's been a strange spring. Very little snow and meltwater means many of the geese have overshot the south of #finland & are already well north. I'm seeing very few Bean types this year. #birding #birdwatching #wildfowl #geese #BirdID helhathnobirdies.blogspot.com/2021/04/finn...
Eurasian White-Fronted Goose. They really are quite demure looking compared to the chunky Greenland version. #BirdID #birds #birding #wildfowl #birdwatching #finland
If the dinky, eye-ringed variants of Eurasian White-Fronted Goose could go ahead and feck right off, thaaaat would be great. #BirdID #hybrid? #geese #wildfowl #birds #birding #birdwatching #finland
Full throttle
A foot in the water could disqualify this mute swan from today’s #BirdOfTheDay #LargeBirdsInFlight You decide @robcrank68.bsky.social
@rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social
#photography #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #wildfowl #Nikon #takeoff #wetland
Digging in
Mute swan, @rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social, Lancashire, UK
#photography #birds #birding @alan678.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay #RuffledFeathers #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildfowl #white #nature #wildlife #preening
A female Mallard swims on water facing slightly to the right, early morning sunlight shines upon her head and breast. The duck is speckled brown with a dark eye stripe, brown eye, and orange bill with dark markings. Blue speculum feathers edged in black and white are visible on her wing.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Blue. The blue speculum can be seen on the wing of this female #Mallard
#Birds 🪶 #Ducks #WildFowl #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography #Nature #Wildlife
Conductor
Teal, @rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social , Lancashire, UK
#photography @robcrank68.bsky.social’s #BirdOFTheDay #OpenWingsNotFlying #wildlife #nature #birds #birding #ukbirds #ukbirding @rspb.bsky.social #ukbirds #ukbirding #wildfowl #waterfowl #Nikon
Red-Crested Pochard
Red-Crested Pochard
Red-Crested Pochard
Red-Crested Pochard
On this date, She who must be obeyed found the first Red-Crested Pochard for Lohja #skills. It would be many years before I was able to find a county first to match. #birds #birding #birdwatching #finland #wildfowl
Steller’s Eider (plus duck Red-breasted Merganser)
35 strong flock of Steller’s Eider flock off Saaremaa today…
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We’ve had to look at wildfowl at lot on this trip cos of @hollidayjonny ‘s recent ‘issues’.
#TheTwoJonnies #EstoniaBirding #Wildfowl #WoodDuck
This is a photo of the windmill in Cley Next the Sea, in Norfolk, England. It is built of red brick, with attractive white cap, sails, three window frames, and a railed balcony that girdles the mill just below mid-height. The sky is a cloudy blue-grey, which contrasts with the sun shining on this pocket of land. Located on a quayside, and on the left of the frame and surrounded by grass, the mill breaks the horizon line that runs through the middle of the image. Beside it, and on the street behind, are historical residential buildings - some with the traditional cobbled, flint rock walls. Tall mature trees can be seen above rooftops in the background. There is a small car park on this quayside–with a handful of cars–beside the mill, and in front of green ivy-covered walls that separate it from the street of houses. This view of the mill is from across the marsh where most of the dried, straw-colored rushes used for thatching roofs, have already been harvested, save for a clump on the left. Like a bad haircut, sun-bleached left-over rushes stick up from–or lay–on the muddy-brown marsh, which takes up the whole lower half of the image. At the far edge of the marsh–just below the mill–we see the top of a dark void indicating the water channel of the River Glaven which separates the marsh from the quayside. Once a busy port, Cley Next the Sea is no longer ‘-Next the Sea’. The small town is now about a mile and a half from the coast. The land having been reclaimed, the vast swaths of salt-water marsh between Cley and the next village of Salthouse, and the sea, are internationally recognized as an important breeding habitat to the resident and visiting wildfowl, and have been protected since 1926.
A #Norfolk #England view for Friday’s #Scape day
#windmill #bluesky #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #Cley #harvest #marshland #NationalWildlifeTrust #wildfowl #wildlifehabitat
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Black Duck by Robert Vaughan
On this date I found an American Black Duck at Kilcolman, Co. Cork. Just the 11th for Ireland at the time & one of several rarities I found that weekend. 😎😍 Remains one of my favorite finds in #irishrarebirds #birds #birding #wildfowl #birdwatching
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We revel in the wildlife around the lake today we saw a red crested potchard- beautiful fella!
#nature
#wildfowl
#nature
#potchard
Love a duck!!! Drake Smew at Fountains Abbey. What a bird @btobirds.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk #ducks #winterducks #wildfowl #blackandwhite #smew #starbird #ukwildlife #fountainsabbey
Pink and White-fronted Geese, Hurworth Burn
White-fronted Geese (and a beautiful Greylag Goose) 💯🦆
Have a look at these beauts!
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#TheTwoJonnies #Geese #GooseFest #Wildfowl #elite 💯🦆
After a quick deviation from *ONLY LOOKING AT WILDFOWL* for the whole of '26... @jonnybirder.bsky.social quickly found and soundly celebrated a local Egyptian Goose. He's obsessed with the #Wildfowl #elite 💯🦆
Unhealthy really
This original oil on panel study of a Mandarin drake lives unframed in my studio.
The painting is 30 years old and along with several others was never framed and was put away during a house move,forgotten about and then rediscovered at the end of last year.
#birdart #wildfowl #wildlifeart #duck
Two Pelicans just above the surface of Frank Lake, Alberta. 🇨🇦
Last summer I visited one of my (and countless #birds’) favourite #swampy areas in #Alberta, #Canada🇨🇦 - #Frank #Lake. I caught these two #Pelicans permitting me a #wingsoverwater #photo (today’s #birdoftheday #theme). Love their often unseen black feathers. #Photography #nature #bird 🪶 #wildfowl.
A bit of plastic fantastic in North East Aberdeenshire over last few days. Whilst a lot of birders will feel a bit ill looking at it, Egyptian Goose is a mega rare bird up here. In fact rare in Scotland. A county tick. I’m avin it! #BirdingScotland #Wildfowl
