Incoming Shoveler Duck

[Lez325]

So called because of the Shovel like bill

DSC04019 Incoming Shoveler by Les Moxon, on Flickr


Les

 

[Jeff15]

Very good shot.....

 

[K9Kirk]

Nice bif shot, love the green color in this one. I'm not sure I've seen it before.

 

[Lez325]

Nice bif shot, love the green color in this one. I'm not sure I've seen it before.

Thank you buddy, Its a Shoveler male - quite common in the UK

he northern shoveler, known simply in Britain as the shoveler, is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America, wintering in southern Europe, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Central, the Caribbean, and northern South America. It is a rare vagrant to Australia. In North America, it breeds along the southern edge of Hudson Bay and west of this body of water, and as far south as the Great Lakes west to Colorado, Nevada, and Oregon.

Les

 

[jeffashman]

Nice shot! Wonderful colors.

 

[Lez325]

Nice shot! Wonderful colors.

Thank you Jeff- nice of you to say

Les