A Special Duck Day - GW Teal

Much discussion amongst local Birders and Nature Photographers in the last week or so about the Green-winged Teal Duck oberved at Lodmoor Reserve Weymouth.

I have observed it twice now. Unfortunately each time it was at least 100 metres/110Yards away. Even though I was using an 840mm equivalent lens, I still had to crop the image considerably.

The good thing is I have now learnt how to differentiate between our common Eurasian Teal and the Green-winged Teal. Observing the poor images below and comparing them to the Eurasian Teal below, you can see the Green-winged has a white strip down the Shoulder. The Green-winged is an extremely rare visitor to the United Kingdom.

One bird I did know was this delightful and fast Goldcrest.

Here you can see the Eurasian Teal as discussed above, of which were far more obliging to have their photograph taken.

Male

Female

The loocal Lapwing flock was taking flight quite often.

One nice little surprise was catching this Chiffchaff flying about a tree catching flies in the air.