thanks Bill, really appreciated 🙏 if any of these birds travelled to your ringing sites that would be just awesome - or vice versa! here's hoping...

Huge thanks to all that have helped along the way. Here's to winter and lots of re-sightings!

that coot on the left has a crown! 🤯

blimey, what birds!! nice work.

lovely photo! it's a 'Mule' - domestic Mallard x Muscovy, the bill markings are pretty diagnostic for this hybrid, and the plumage indicates domestic 'scovy parentage too. they are invariably infertile (hence the name) so a lot are abandoned in wild duck flocks.

Thanks to @lynnesbirding.bsky.social for the help!

interesting. appreciate the advice, thanks!

wonderful spread of species. out of interest, do you find ducks easy to dazzle? I've heard they can be tricky, but I ring at sites where it probably could be done. (all of the wildfowl I ring are hand caught by day!)

also singing: Great Tit, Dunnock, Wren. A very calm, still morning. Signs of spring in abundance. Canada Geese pairing up and falling out, too.

ooh nice! glad it's doing well.

top work. was the 2005 Canada the regular bird at Regents? I don't think it goes more than 100 metres from that bench, ever...