Duck I.D.

[Fishtales]

One for Malcolm perhaps.

Taken at the weekend at Center Parcs on the boating lake.

Anyone I.D. the duck? I think I have found what it is but need a bit of help in case it isn't


Mum with ducklings, one of them trying to eat a fish

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Close-up of ducks head

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Great weekend with all the family. Temperature reached 27°C at one point

[Scotaidh]

Looks like a tufted duck to me.

What type of fish was it though?!

[Malcolm]

Sandy,

If you came along to the casting club you'd know a tufted duck female, we've got hundreds there in winter!

Someone will now tell me it's a Wotchamacallit cross

[Fishtales]

I thought Tufted Duck too but there isn't any tuft

The fish I don't know. It could have been a Minnow although there were a lot of silver fish about six inches long swimming about taking bread.

Not a great picture, no polariser

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[Darwin]

Maybe is a Ferruginous Duck  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferruginous_Duck

[Fishtales]

The neck looks too long and there is white around the base of the beak that isn't on a tufty.

[burnie]

Colour of the eye says it's a Tufty,might be a hybrid,but definately of Tufty origin.The fish is , as has been said a Roach.

[Fishtales]

Could it be a Scaup?

http://www.birdguides.com/iris/pictures.asp?v=1&f=290671

More especially this one (see picture 9 and the beak in 5)

http://www.animalphotos.me/bird3-nzscaup.htm

I know the above are New Zealand birds but it might have been imported

[Malcolm]

Sandy,

I'm sure it's a Tufted duck. Have a look at the fourth picture down
http://www.rampantscotland.com/week/week_aug4.htm

Also a couple from my library showing the colouring and another which has just surfaced so doesn't have the tuft showing. I've probably got one with the neck extended too - somewhere!

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[Fishtales]

Thanks Malcolm. So it seems my first asumption was right, it is a Tufted Duck