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Drake Common Scoter at Draycote Water in October 2008. Photo: Steve Seal
Drake Garganey at Brandon Marsh in April 2008. Photo: Steve Seal
Drake Smew at Draycote Water in January 2008. Photo: Steve Seal
Drake Lesser Scaup at Draycote Water in February 2008. Photos: Dave Hutton (top) & Steve Seal
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This long staying first-winter drake remained on site from November 27th 2007 to March 4th 2008. What was presumably the same individual was then seen at Brandon Marsh on March 5th and Alvecote Pools on March 14th. |
Drake Lesser Scaup at Grimley. Photo: Andy Warr
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This first-winter drake was present at Grimley from February 11th to 14th 2006 before moving to nearby Westwood Pool and constituted the first record for Worcestershire. |
Female Lesser Scaup at Farnborough Park in March 2005. Photo: Oliver Wadsworth
The first for Warwickshire.
The regional records of Lesser Scaup are as follows:-
Chasewater (Staffs): March 8th to April 26th 1987 (the first for Britain)
Farnborough Park (Warks): February 27th to March 20th 2005
Kingsbury Water Park (Warks): May 21st 2005
Grimley (Worcs): February 11th to 14th 2006
Westwood Pool (Worcs): February 15th to 19th & March 4th to 7th 2006
Tittesworth Reservoir (Staffs): July 1st 2006
Blithfield Reservoir (Staffs): November 3rd 2006
Draycote Water (Warks): November 27th 2007 to March 4th 2008
Brandon Marsh (Warks): March 5th 2008
Alvecote Pools (Warks): March 14th 2008
Whooper Swan at Marsh Lane NR in November 2007. Photo: Steve Seal
Red-crested Pochards at Draycote Water in October 2007. Photo: Steve Seal
Drake Bufflehead at Whitemoor Haye. Photos: Andy Warr
This very mobile individual was intially discovered at Branston Gravel Pits on May 24th 2004, but was seen at a number of sites in Warwickshire, West Midlands County and Staffordshire during June. It was the first regional record.
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