'kin typical!

Another day chasing the English pound saw me having trips out to gorgeous Gorleston (!) and sunny Salhouse. A trip down to Gorleston usually means a look in on Yarmouth seafront this time of year to admire the Mediterranean Gulls on the beach there, but with deadlines to meet I decided against it so placed my camera back in its cozy spot before leaving home this morning. Mid morning, with both clients sorted I was gonna pull in to Salhouse broad but sailed right passed. Buggar. With ten o'clockers racing away I decided to pull in to Wroxham broad. Loads of birds here today, good flock of gulls and plenty of Tufties but with the sun full in the face and wielding my old 'stay in car' Swift Audubons it was like looking through tissue paper! I impressed myself, picking out an adult Med Gull being a notable shade of 'knackered optic coating' grey! Another car-bound birder present was intent with his camera, with a lens the size of a small person! A look through the Tufties however highlighted a rather distinctive, delicate little face with peaked crown, a corking female Ring-necked Duck! The camera guy had already seen it (moan!) and had had it the previous day. It soon drifted out of site of the carpark. Of course if I had brought my camera today, or even my scope, this bird would not have been here-guaranteed !

Ring-necked Duck....male