Ferruginous Duck B N Grebe Bedfordshire

Jimmy's birthday today & he has to go to work,but mid morning the phone goes it's Jimmy & he has just worked himself half a day off, he Say's do I fancy going to Bedford for the Fudge Duck.
The answer is yes, so at noon we set off for the 61miles to Priory country park in Bedfordshire.
We turn into Barkers lane & park up, the lake is right in front of us, we scope the lake & find the target over the over side of the water in with a lot of Pochard.
As we walk round to get a better view the Black-necked Grebe comes into view, another 2 year ticks that's 136) up to now.
A nice walk round the lake to the hide where we scan for the Duck, but we think it has gone over to where we had come from,as a birder had his camera out & Jimmy thinks he's seen it again, so we walk back to the other side, & there it is showing very close in.
Photo's taken in very bad light, but really great view's for us.

Ferruginous Duck

A good trip with the target bird seen, so off home hopefully we will miss the traffic on the M25 car park as it's getting near to rush time.We do miss most of the heavy traffic & get home just after 5 o'clock, so well worth the trip, happy birthday Jim.                              
No Brian today as work gets in the way, but he managed to see them yesterday, so that's nice.

Out of focus but a record  anyway

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A bit of fun