Seven Goldeneye (two males and five females) were on Cowdenknowes reservoir. One of the drakes was displaying enthusiastically while the female was adopting a submissive posture, very low down in the water. I'm still not sure I have sorted out the plumage differences between adult female, first winter and eclipse male, but by this time of year, things are a bit simpler. Having said that, one of the males at Lochwinnoch last week was in transitional plumage.
Monday, March 17, 2014
"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls".
- - - - - - - - John Muir, 1838-1914 - -
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- Another Redpoll was over the garden during the aft...
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- Three or four Frogs in the pond this morning.
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