Poor weather {again} with high seas and excessive rain here on the Solent and Southampton Water. This mornings bird watch was taking cover within one of the bird hides at Titchfield Haven Nature Reserve. Not many visitors today and as the weather deteriorated the reserve closed at lunchtime for safety reasons.
Northern Shoveler – the film catches these ducks using their large bills to filter water for their food.
Shovelers are surface-feeding ducks with huge spatula-shaped bills.
- UK breeding birds 1,100 pairs
- UK wintering 19,500 birds
Like many duck breeds the female is a fairly “brown” bird whereas the Drake is colourful with his dark green head white breasts and chestnut flanks making him very handsome.
Continued Reflections from my World. 
that first video shows poor canoeing weather!
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I did not feel walking was even safe on the road yesterday!
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and your gut instinct was right. A lot of people forget that during a storm like that pieces/chunks of wood are floating about just waiting to be shot like a bullet!
I’ve seen logs being tossed like match sticks! I’ve also seen tree limbs snapped like twigs by these projectiles!
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