Tuesday 22 January 2019

Ring-necked Duck at Tindale Tarn ...

The male Ring-necked Duck that was found on Tindale Tarn at RSPB Geltsdale yesterday was still present today as the early morning light brightened ...

Initially it swam around with its head tucked in ...





... and then bobbed around at the west end of the tarn in the company of some Tufted Ducks ...





... while mostly out of sight from the viewing screen, it did occasionally swim by ...





... then some feeding action in a reed-fringed bay ...



The first Ring-necked Duck for Cumbria was a male at Sunbiggin Tarn on 4-7 April 1982 ; the first female was on 24 April 2007 at Campfield Marsh ...

... with the complexities of returning and wandering birds it becomes difficult to determine the number of 'new' birds that have arrived in the county ... it may well be fewer than ten ...





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