Common Scoter160 viewsWhen I spotted this pair at distance I thought it was a female Ruddy duck alongside a Coot, on closer inspection I realised it was a pair of Common Scoter, my first ever sighting of these birds. Very heavily cropped photos I'm afraid.
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Common Scoter - Melanitta nigra151 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Common Scoter Melanitta nigra Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool148 viewsWhen I spotted this pair at distance I thought it was a female Ruddy duck alongside a Coot, on closer inspection I realised it was a pair of Common Scoter, my first ever sighting of these birds. Very heavily cropped photos I'm afraid.
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Common Scoter - Melanitta nigra146 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Common Scoter - Melanitta nigra144 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Goosander - Mergus merganser137 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Goosander - Mergus merganser133 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Goosander - Mergus merganser132 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Common Scoter130 viewswell once again I mistook a female Common Scoter for a female Ruddy Duck - on this occasion a post on a birding website by a local birder (Stephen Dunstan) mentioned there being a Scoter on the Mere & he went onto confirm that's what I'd photographed.
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129 views
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Goosander - Mergus merganser127 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Goosander - Mergus merganser125 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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