Common Scoter117 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 nigra Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool116 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 nigra114 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Common Scoter - Melanitta nigra110 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Common Scoter - Melanitta nigra109 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Goosander - Mergus merganser102 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Goosander - Mergus merganser102 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Goosander - Mergus merganser98 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Goosander - Mergus merganser95 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Goosander - Mergus merganser95 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere Nature Reserve Blackpool
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Common Scoter92 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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