I love ducks, they're such endearing birds and often have interesting courtship displays.
In the UK we have the Goosander (which is a type of merganser) but we also (less frequently) have the Red breasted Merganser.
I keep a year list of birds, and always start every year with a birding walk in our local area on New Year's Day. Even before we left our city centre flat this New Year's Day we'd seen Sparrowhawk and Waxwing (that's Bohemian Waxwing, I think, we only have the one species and always just call it Waxwing),
All sorts of "our" birds make it across, usually caught up in a storm blowing across the Atlantic. Shetland and the Isles of Scilly are the hotspots for them to land but they can be anywhere. Not many, but just enough to cause excitement.
Shetland is a hotspot for all kinds of birds, a wonderful place to visit. Yes, every so often i notice a bird from your side of the world ends up over here and causes a stir, though I'd never before heard of Cedar Waxwings being amongst them
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I love ducks, they're such endearing birds and often have interesting courtship displays.
In the UK we have the Goosander (which is a type of merganser) but we also (less frequently) have the Red breasted Merganser.
I keep a year list of birds, and always start every year with a birding walk in our local area on New Year's Day. Even before we left our city centre flat this New Year's Day we'd seen Sparrowhawk and Waxwing (that's Bohemian Waxwing, I think, we only have the one species and always just call it Waxwing),
Yes, I think all the UK Waxwings are Bohemians (Bombycilla garrulus). There are occasional stray Cedars. but they are extremely rare (https://www.historicalrarebirds.info/u20/cedar-waxwing).
Oh that's interesting, I had no idea Cedar Waxwings had ever visited the UK.
All sorts of "our" birds make it across, usually caught up in a storm blowing across the Atlantic. Shetland and the Isles of Scilly are the hotspots for them to land but they can be anywhere. Not many, but just enough to cause excitement.
Shetland is a hotspot for all kinds of birds, a wonderful place to visit. Yes, every so often i notice a bird from your side of the world ends up over here and causes a stir, though I'd never before heard of Cedar Waxwings being amongst them