Bit hot that weekend, wasn't it? Did you take a dip in the sea?

Now it wasn't really good weather for ducks this weekend (unless you were at Lord's!), but this female eider was joining thousands of Brits and cooling off in the sea.

But you'd expect that from the UK's heaviest and fastest flying duck. They live exclusively on the coast - so maybe a warm spell is good weather for this duck at least!

Female eider - image by Nick Upton (www.rspb-images.com)

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