Mild, cloudy, SW3 - With the Apprentice Birder in tow we set out on a duck hunt this morning, which actually turned into more of a procession as neither of the trio were particularly difficult to locate but all were new for him. First stop Scotney bends where a smart female Scaup (once a regular winter visitor here, now almost a rarity) attracted a steady flow of locals to the Sussex end of the lake where it conveniently cohorted with several Tufted Ducks. Moving onto the bird reserve and the second of our targets, a redhead Smew (similar status to the Scaup) showed poorly at distance and into the sunlight at the northern end of ARC from the bamboo. From the Outland trail the wintering Long-tailed Duck on New Diggings completed the hat trick of ducks for the Apprentice, where five Goldeneyes were also present. None of the trio posed for pics so I rummaged in the archives to find some past examples, of which I could only find two of the three.
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