Long-tailed Duck info

the two long staying female Long-tailed Ducks on the pits were a bonus year tick as the species is often only recorded on the Humber in November gales when encounters are typically brief; there have been a few other birds on the pits over the years; one of two females seen on January 1st 1989 stayed through to April 8th; the drake shown above was on Waters' Edge from April 10-11th 2003; it had this strange habit of standing up in the water and twisting its head around on a regular basis; In the most recent 15 years I have recorded LTD in only eight years.