Exotic Visitor - Mandarin Duck

Have just received some nice images from one of our local Trust Members.

                              Isobel regularly feeds duck visitors to her garden in Nairn, but yesterday had an unusual visitor along with several Mallard drakes. Some good things come from China, like this beautiful Mandarin Duck !! 
They have now established themselves in the UK, numbers thought to be around 7000. Unlike the Mallard they nest in trees sometimes as high as 10 metres off the ground, usually in dense woodland near ponds. This one is a fine male specimen.