I've worked out what the secret is to finding rare birds at Pennington Flash, stop going regularly and just call in now and again. Last week I dropped by for the first time in weeks and found a little tern, today I wasn't even bothering to go to the flash, I was on my way birding elsewhere, but decided to call in at Green Lane for a quick look and almost the first bird I clapped eyes on was a drake lesser scaup just going into eclipse.
It was still present at the west end to 14:15 when it was flushed by two canoeists. The tufted duck flock it was with seemed to fly into Ramsdales, and perhaps most of them landed, but when I got there I couldn't find the lesser scaup, and it also wasn't in East Bay, though there were 20+ tufties plus a drake pochard that had been with them earlier.
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