The PB's at WWT Arundel In October (Pt2)

Hello, good afternoon, and welcome back

Trumpeter Swan

Phillipine Duck

Juvenile Moorhen (although it also looks similar to a different breed of non native Moorhen)

Magpie Goose

Chloe Wigeon... is the eye patch green, or blue?!

Goldeneye

Possibly a Scaly Sided Merganser..... but check out the hair!! (And nope, that's not one of my made up names!!)

Chinese Goose

Chloe back for more!

Possibly a female Hooded Merganser (at first I thought female Scaly Sided Merganser)

Bufflehead

Red Shoveler

White Headed Duck... I'm guessing it goes white in the breeding season? 

I presume a Greylag, but it seemed small!

A male Hooded Merganser

Google Lens comes up with Wood Duck and Mandarin Duck... but I don't know about eclipse and juvenile and female plumages

Oh Chloe, I'm so beautiful.... Have you ever heard of Narcissus??

Biggest surprise of the day for me....

I'd never realised how big they are

Or how small these are, up close

Immature Scaly Sided Merganser (probably lol)

More Redshank shenanigans

You could have someone's eye out with that.... likely your own!!

Harlequin Duck

The other WWT places we'd been to had Eider Ducks (Mrs PB's favourites), but here they were Spectacled Eiders

A Common Scoter (I think) We get these autumn/winter in Poole Harbour, but how anyone can spot them from shore in the swell is beyond me!

Long Tailed Duck?

They are very strange looking birds!

And we were sent on our way by a shouty Herring Gull

And so concluded, in my view, a rather spectacular visit with a super range of birds, many of which we'd not seen.

Thanks for sticking with it if you've made it to the end!

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