After visiting Dad to finish fitting his new garden fence/gates we decided on making a run around the orbital car park to Wilstone reservoir in Tring for the Green-winged Teal and after a short walk to the hide we very quickly enjoyed decent scope views of the target which we could actually have scoped from the car park without the walk. A quick check for early Terns or any hirundines as we walked back to the car failed to deliver. With a female Blue-winged Teal being reported at Marlow in Bucks and now being less than twenty miles away we decided on giving that a twitch too. The cross county route was slow but we pulled into the car park on Pound Lane and paid for a couple of hours before walking along the road to Lower Pound Lane then walked around 800metres down the lane through the kissing gate to view the ponds and found the Blue-winged Teal sitting alone on the right hand pool whist all the other ducks slept on the left hand pool.
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| Green-winged Teal at Wilstone |
The bird is being reported as a female which I haven't seen until today having seen several males prior to this bird. Although the bird news services are reporting the bird as a female Blue-winged Teal some are still casting doubt over it's purity. For now the bird makes the year list but I'll keep an eye on developments with it and watch with interest as the debate continues.
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| Blue-winged Teal |
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| Blue-winged Teal |
Year list now 182
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