A call from Steve Holliday this morning to say he had found a drake Green-winged Teal at Castle Island. Half hour later and I was stood beside him watching a long overdue and expected bird on my former patch. On the south side of the river it fed with a female ‘Teal’ that after some rummaging around for images on the net we eventually agreed was a Common Teal.
At Bothal Pond the drake Scaup had returned and a 1st-summer drake Goldeneye was a new addition.
A Tilmouth
