20230930 Blue-winged Teal, Tophill Low Nature Res, Yorkshire Water.

 

20230930 Garganey
Female type foreground and probable male eclipse.
Excellent reserve for duck ID.

20230930 Blue-winged Teal
Female foreground with thinly and broken white tips to greater coverts.
Eclipse male at rear. Note solid darker crown.
Both have split pale eyerings not seen on Gargeney or Teal.

20230930 Blue-winged Teal
Male chased female and showed white bar to greater coverts and stroger turquoise green
speculum.

20230930 Blue-winged Teal
Semi-spatulate bill more so than Gargeney's and a nod towards Shoveler's

20230930 Blue-winged Teal
Male showing full wing pattern.
Very broad white greater coverts bar.

20230930 Eurasian Teal

19890919 Blue-winged Teal
First find of American Duck at Brandon Marsh.
From greater coverts pattern probably a female...
BritIsles List 231, those were the days...? Conservation of a small reserve in the midlands.