One of the few photos I have so far of Eurasian wigeons (Mareca penelope). They belong to the dabbling duck genus.
The male has this beautiful red head with a broad yellow stripe on the forehead. The female is more brown and red all over.
I don't meet them that often on our island, but I have seen some here lately- so I hope to get better photos soon.
But I often see many of them on a distance on Jæren, one hour and so away, where these photos are from.
Check out the links below te line for some more crowded photos with this fun story:
On a walk along some beaches on Jæren some years ago, there were at first no wigeons in this bay. But on our return 1.5 hours later, the same bay had been filled with at least 2400 of them! The two photos here are only a few of the ones I took, to try to count them all.
(Brunnakke hann, i slekten gressender, in Norwegian)
My album of birds here.
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