scoters in profile

no close shots at all this year but how easy are these three on an East coast seawatch?
One thing that was obvious this time was that the White-winged Scoters were very much a lone group feeding further out than the Surfs and Blacks and remaining in their own little clusters -- click for bigger images

Black Scoters

Black Scoters

was really chuffed to get good views of a nice flock off our cottage at Campbell -- the strangest thing was that the males were almost constantly singing and displaying to the odd female  which drew attention to them as opposed to teh large flocks of Surf Scoters -- lots more to process some time

Black Scoter dots

called in for the drake Black Scoter at Bamburgh on the way back -- excellent scope views but distant for a 300mm lens and 2x converter -- had been doing a lot of trekking in Scotland so took the light weight lens option only! a very obvious bird even when only the head was visible!