Guillemot and long-tailed duck

This is a photo of a guillemot, swimming near the Brouwersdam, between south-Holland and Zeeland provinces in the Netherlands.

Before I arrived there to see that bird on 18 January 2014, the earliest birds of the day had been a singing blackbird and a singing great tit.

Along our way, buzzards sitting on poles.

At the Brouwersdam, oystercatchers. Male and female common mergansers swimming.

And curlews standing.

A bit further, six brent geese swimming past two grey plovers on the North Sea shore.

A beautiful male long-tailed duck was swimming close to the shore. In winter plumage now; unlike its summer plumage in Spitsbergen.

Other long-tailed-duck photos from the Brouwersdam: here.

The duck was not shy.

Male and female goldeneyes swam further away.

Still further away, near the lock, grey seals and herring gulls on a sandbank.

A red-throated diver and red-necked grebes swimming.

Great cormorants sitting on the rocks of the dam.

Stay tuned; as we continued to Schouwen island, where we saw more interesting birds.

Long-tailed and other ducks: here.

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