31 March 2025 - Hollingworth Lake

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Female Common Scoter, Greylag Goose

Simon reported a female Common Scoter this morning from the lake. When I arrived the water was calm, and the Scoter was out in the middle, asleep. I took a few distant typically 'specks of dust' photos and carried on with my usual walk. Near the reserve was a Greylag Goose, feeding with the Canadas, so I snapped a few pics of that, with all the rubbish in the background visible after the water level has dropped, and carried on with my walk.

As I reached the long wall overlooking Bib Knowl Valley, the female Scoter was a little closer in and gradually it came closer until I was able to get some nice photos, though it did spend a lot of time asleep with its head tucked in, so it was a bit of a mad rush to get some pics with its head up!

Greylag Goose, 1/640 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 3200 (view full size image)

Common Scoter - Female, 1/640 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 160 (view full size image)