A Raft of Ducks

6 responses to “A Raft of Ducks”

1. Rebecca

   February 21, 2012 at 2:18 pm

   What a sight!

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   1. mthew

      February 21, 2012 at 3:15 pm

      And just a subway and bus ride away.

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2. Mark Wilkinson

   February 22, 2012 at 6:06 am

   Terrific spectacle. I had hoped for a similar gathering of Knots when I visited Snettisham recently, but the tides were wrong. Assume they are setting of north soon. Do you know where they spend the summer?

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   1. mthew

      February 22, 2012 at 7:11 am

      They breed across the north of Canada & Eurasia, and Iceland.

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3. DHB, FBF « Backyard and Beyond

   March 18, 2012 at 5:59 pm

   […] species finding themselves rubbing shoulders, so to speak. The large raft of Greater Scaup that winters here is still around, although they will be heading north to breeding grounds soon. The raft […]

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4. Scaup | Backyard and Beyond

   March 14, 2014 at 7:08 am

   […] are thousands of Scaup in Gravesend and Dead Horse Bay right now. Here’s a raft of them from the archives of 2012. They will soon head north to breed. Over the weekend there was precisely one at Marine Park Creek. […]

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