Ring-necked Duck, Fishmoor Rservoir, 15 October 2021 (fifth from left)
SO MY ELOC LIST WENT UP BY ONE. Following on from the poor views of Pectoral Sandpiper at Alston last month a juvenile Ring-necked Duck on Fishmoor Reservoir, found by John Wright, kept my ELOC counter moving. Another good catch up after missing the drake at Stocks twice earlier in the year. Incidentally the Pec at Champion Moor flood pool was just before I arrived in East Lancs in 2005 so Gav’s Alston bird was another good one to get back. The Ring-necked Duck was an interesting plumage for me, new for me in the UK at least I think. Fishmoor is a shit hole though, surrounded by housing now and I see there’s what looks like an unecessary new road cutting through what used to be wasteland to the southwest. There used to be rough grassland all around it when I first moved here. There’s hardly room for a Meadow Pipit to turn around now.
Ring-necked and Tufted Ducks