Friday, 29 October 2010

New Arrivals

Some new arrivals recently on the river, indicating the winter approaching. A pair of red-breasted mergansers, and a moorhen which usually has a mate with it during the winter time.

The Mergansers are very much like the Goosanders but tend to be lower in the water, and the males have the biggest differences in colour - with crest non existent on the goosander male.










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