Thursday 2 January 2014

Priorslee lake - Scaup

My first images of 2014 came from Priorslee lake, courtesy of the two 1st winter Scaup!

After waking up......


Showing nicely in the low afternoon sun.




An arty full frontal shot!


Quite a bit of grey is now beginning to show on the flanks and upper parts of both birds








The year list continued with both Great Black-backed Gull and an adult Yellow-legged Gull present amongst the pretty sparse gull presence. Here's the latter departing.....



And ooops, 2014 of course......