On Wednesday Evening one of the Mersea Birding Group members found a Velvet Scoter in the Pyefleet Channel. So my plan for the following morning was to walk from Shop Lane to Maydays Sluice. Just in case the Scoter was thinking of leaving with the tide and drifting back out to sea. This route might give me a chance of seeing it if it did. But not this young sea duck it had stayed put overnight and by 9.am i had located it feeding and mixing with the Red-breasted mergansers. But it wasn't going to be easy getting any decent pictures of a duck 150 yards out bobbing about on a rather blustery sea with low cloud and no sunlight. So after two hours and 900+ images to look at when i got home and after some cropping and sharpening these are the results. Since then the Scoter has stayed in the channel and another visit was made on New Years Day to kick off another hopefully bird filled 2022. I'm now hoping it stays till i get back on the Ranges next week as it might give me a chance of getting some better images.We will just have to wait and see now.
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