Lesser Scaup Ogston Reservoir

Stills feels more like Winter than Spring on the moors with reasonable numbers of Fieldfare and the Great Grey Shrike still present this morning but at least 8 Curlew and 51 Golden Plover at Upperloads are indications that Spring is on its way.
News that Steve Mann had found a first winter male Lesser Scaup at Ogston Reservoir certainly brightened the day. This is the first Derbyshire record of this North American duck. That fact that it has turned up now is probably an indication that it is migrating northwards, but on the wrong side of the Atlantic having arrived in Europe last autumn.

Lesser Scaup