I’m often reminded that I used to look at a distant bird sitting on a pond and mutter, ‘It’s just a duck’. That was before I fully appreciated the beauty of some of these delightful birds. Earlier this week, we visited Marshside, Southport, where these birds offered some entertainment and some nice images – northern pintails, wigeon, mute swans, Eurasian teal and shovelers complete the line-up.





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