Goosander's

I'm gradually catching up with processing the images from last weekend. This blog is about the Goosanders we photographed on a lake in the heart of Snowdonia. Unfortunately the light wasn't that great but we managed some ok images. The lake in question is home to Goosander's during the winter months and due to the large population of ducks they have become rather fond of bread, their usual diet is fish. This makes the birds easy to attract, but trying to isolate them surrounded by hoards of ducks and seagull's can be tricky. Below are a few pictures from the morning, the females have the red heads while the males are dark green.