Greater Scaup: Working away this week it was nice to catch up the pair of 1st winter greater scaup that have been spotted mid week on a local flash, a stones throw away from where I live.
Amberswood is one of the local flashes I've not been to before, part of the Flashes of Wigan and Leigh National Nature Reserve and consist of 160-hectare of wetland mosaic consisting of a lake and a series of smaller ponds and lowland raised bog, linked by ditches and streams and interspersed with species-rich grassland and woodland.
The scaup were confiding and not particularly camera shy, foraging close in shore.
This is a lovely little place that offers something for everyone a new patch to keep an eye on.
