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The #SundaySwan is a brilliant Bewick’s! And it has a friend that is a disembodied head.

Still not a duck though. #WeekendWaterbird

#NotADuck #DuckOfTheDay #BewicksSwan #CygnusColumbianus #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Birding #Birds

A Bewick’s swan stands in a green field. It is a noble looking white swan with a mostly black bill that is yellow at the base. To one side another swan’s head and upper neck is visible but its body is hidden in a dip in the field, which looks a bit freaky.

#FourDuckFriday except they’re geese. A goose is not a duck.

#NotADuck #BrantGoose #BrentGoose #BrantaBernicla #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2024 #RSPBTitchwell

Four Brent geese (like other geese but basically black with a little white collar) standing in front of breakers on a sandy beach in winter

This is the Jeudi geai, which isn’t a duck.

#NotADuck #Jay #JeudiGeai #GarrulusGlandarius #BirdsSeenIn2026 #TheGreatFen #Birding #Birds

A jay in flight, viewed from the side. It has a pointed beak, pink sides and a black looking tail. Its wings are at full stretch and the underside of the tip is white.

Ardea cinerea (Grey heron / Graureiher)

#birdsofmastodon #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #birdwatching #heron #Reiher #NotADuck

A heron is seen from the back. Only its head, long neck and a part of its back are in the frame. The bird is looking towards the left , showing us its face with yellow eye and long ornamental head feathers. In the background two ducks are visible but out of focus.

Birding walk this morning (new hat working well) and I failed to think of getting my camera out for the deer, but here are some hares, a red kite and a fieldfare. None of which are ducks.

#NotADuck #Birding #LowCarbonBirding #RedKite #MilvusMilvus #BrownHare #EuropeanHare #LepusEuropaeus #FieldFare #TurdusPilaris

A fieldfare silhouetted in the top of a tree. It is a stout-looking kind of thrush, with a proud bearing.

Two hares (jackrabbits to Americans) running in a green field

A red kite taking off from a branch. It is a big browny-red bird of prey with a grey head and white patches on its outspread wings, blurry, and rapidly exiting the picture.

Look, a #SundaySwan, which is #NotADuck

#MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #DuckOfTheDay #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Birding #Birds #HolmeFen #TheGreatFen

A big white mute swan swimming with its neck tilted to one side and head turned down, coyly.

The #WeekendWaterbird is a #Cormorant, which is #NotADuck. It might be a dinosaur though.

#BirdsSeenIn2026 #Birding #Birds #PhalacrocoraxCarbo

A black cormorant sitting on a branch in front of more trees. It is big, black and very dinosaur-like.

It is #TwoDuckTuesday, but these are #Swans - a swan is #NotADuck

#MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #DuckOfTheDay #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Birding #Birds

Two gracious white swans swimming down a narrow, shallow stream with waterlogged grass on one side and long scruffy yellowing reeds on the other

It is #FourDuckFriday, I think - the days are getting hard to track. So, pick your four ducks from this selection and they are the #DuckOfTheDay. Mind the geese and swans though as they are #NotADuck.

#Duck #Wigeon #AnasPenelope #Goose #CanadaGoose #BrantaCanadensis #MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #DuckOfTheDay

A part-frozen marsh lagoon with mud in the foreground and reeds in the background. It is littered with a mixture of wigeon, canada geese and mute swans.

This goose may be getting fat, but it isn’t getting eaten at least. Have a ducking good Christmas everybody.

#WhiteFrontedGoose #AnserAlbifrons #NotADuck #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birding #Birds

A grey goose with an orange bill surrounded at its base by white feathers floating on rippled water

"Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Let me tell you about ducks.”

Have a good Christmas y’all, and don’t forget to pay the ducks their tribute - preferably in rolled oats or similar, not bread.

#Cormorant #PhalacrocoraxCarbo #NotADuck #BirdsSeenIn2025 #LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Birds #ForestOfMarstonVale

A cormorant standing on a little island, wings outstretched as though it is preaching to the two gulls in front of it that are facing away and clearly completely uninterested.

Excellent sentiment: “the opportunity to see geese is more important than television” (Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac)…

…though I have to add that a goose is but a clumsy, oversized, wannabe duck.

#Birding #Reading #Nature #Geese #NotADuck

Quick urban birding in passing on the way to donate platelets today - not a duck though…

#NotADuck #CarrionCrow #CorvusCorone #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #BirdsSeenIn2025

A black carrion crow pecking for food in the ballast of a railway, with tracks visible behind it.

Today’s weekend waterbirds are #geese, though there are a couple of ducks in the photo too so you don’t get withdrawal symptoms. None of the geese are ducks, and one of them isn’t a greylag - can you spot it? Please tell me your anser.
Oh, and please ignore the coot.

#GreylagGoose #AnserAnser #PinkFootedGoose #AnserBrachyrhynchus #Goose #NotADuck #Coot #FulicaAtra #CuteCoot #Duck #DuckOfTheDay #Mallard #AnasPlatyrhynchos #BirdsSeenIn2025 #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Birds

A lake stretches away to a muddy shore.

Behind a trio of screening ducks (and a coot), eleven grey geese swim in a line (one going back the other way from ten of them). Most of the geese are fairly chonky with orange bills. Somewhere in the middle one, with a bit of a gap around it, is slighter and has a dark coloured bill.

Take care when wielding a grebe, if you’re not careful you could have someone’s eye out - they’re surprisingly pointy!

Ducks are mostly less pointy, but this is #NotADuck though it is today’s #WeekendWaterbird

#GreatCrestedGrebe #PodicepsCristatus #BirdsSeenIn2025 #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Birds