Ticking Ducks

There have been four or maybe five Mandarin Ducks on Birdham Pool off and on for a while now which is in itself not much of interest...however, the pool counts as part of the Selsey Peninsula and Mandarin Duck is a hard species to get on the list for that area, hence a fairly constant stream of birders checking the area out! Well today myself and SR got lucky and managed to see two male & two females at the very back of the pool as well as a surprise male Red-crested Pochard (not sure what this says about the credentials of these birds though, someone got a wildfowl collection nearby?!!)


Mandarin Ducks:

Red-crested Pochard:

Over at Saltern's Way the two Little Gulls were back again:


Little Gulls:

At Apuldram, a paid of Stonechats and fifty Yellowhammers by the horsefield dung heap.



Stonechats:

Yellowhammers: