Melanitta nigra

It’s not every day that you find yourself feeding a Common Scoter with bread! This Drake Common Scoter made the short flight from Falmouth Bay into the brackish water of Swanpool lake. Unusually for a deep water diving duck it … Read More

This female Common Scoter has spent several days feeding in the sea around Pendennis Point, Falmouth. It’s normally difficult even getting close to these diving ducks from a boat, so when this female Common Scoter came within ten metres of … Read More