I was looking through a flock of around 2500 pink-footed geese at Newburgh near Parbold today when I came across this cracking ruddy shelduck. I can't say that I've ever seen this species with pink-feet before and in fact it's such an unusual occurrence that it would seem to be almost certainly the same individual that has been seen with pink-feet in Norfolk for at least the past two winters and as recently as nine days ago was in a flock of 10,000 birds at Cley.
What this tells us, if anything, about the birds provenance is hard to know, but since it's been seen with the geese for at least two winters, it's presumably returning to Iceland with them in summer.
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