Jun 182011
 
A Mega Twitch! - A Scoter Bonanza - 18th June 2011

An immature drake American White-winged Scoter was amazingly discovered by local birders amongst a huge flock of moulting scoter at Blackdog, Aberdeen on 11th June 2011.   This was a first record for Britain of this scoter species and not surprisingly,  it took the local birders some time to clinch the ID. Reading various reports on websites, this bird seemed  – a) extremely difficult to find, amongst some 1200+ Common Scoter & 2000+ Common Eider – b) it would be viewed at some distance and c) it would be a very tricky identification process. All this on top of a […]

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