I’m on my way home from an excellent Irish Raptor Study Group conference, topped up by a visit to Leopardstown.
Leaving Dublin
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Oscar Dewhurst – Mallard
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Seeing cold weather forecast overnight, I made sure I was at Richmond Park early the next morning to try and get some images of ducks on the ice. As not all the water on the ponds was frozen, most of the ducks were concentrated in the few remaining areas of water, but I did manage…
Sunday book review
Sunday came early this week – see here
Tim Melling – Flying Steamer Ducks
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These are the smallest of the three steamer ducks and the only one that can fly. It is also the only species that is found on freshwater lakes (but can occur on the sea). They are called steamer ducks because the two flightless species do the butterfly stroke across the surface moving rather like a…