These a nice goosander round the back of bredbury hall with 10 chicks

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In the past I found that they tend to be moving downstream. I watched one family go down over Pear Mill wier, unharmed, as they float better than polystyrene.

Whilst on the subject of Goyt water birds. Did you all see this lovely little story?

BBC News - Owl adopts ducklings born in 30ft-high nest

Yes I did see that on the news, wont they starve to death if they wont eat the meat

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there all still going strong saw them last evening at waters meet

anyone got any idea what these ducks are. light coloured body with brown head.never seen them before?? about 8 landed on the river this morning????? sorry about quality took with phone camara...

they look like Goosander??? bit difficult of those images

did the birds look like these?




(hope it was ok to use your image John?)

Althouigh the pics were low quality the birds are definitely goosanders. The young are usually born upstream and are taken downriver by the female. Looks as if this years broods are already able to fly. Have a look in the birds section of the photos Billy. The males are very differently coloured compared to females and young.

And no problem using my pic drynetter.

There worse than commorants!

Pulled this from a website

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Goosander make cormorants look like beginners when it comes to emptying a gravel run of small fish. They work as a group in shepherding the fish into an exposed area before systematically picking them off in a most impressive demonstration of cooperation. Sixty, seventy a hundred, two hundred thousand small fish annually I don’t know but such numbers must have an impact. Just what that impact might be is yet to be determined.

Predation

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