goldeneye with ducklings

[turlough]

I usually only see Goldeneyes (Bucephala clangula) in our stream in late Winter/early Spring. This year one of the pairs looks to have nested here too because earlier this week I saw this mum with her three tiny babies.

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Comments

[turlough]

They were so cute paddling along! I looked up Barrow's Goldeneye, they look almost exactly the same as ours. It must be really difficult to distinguish between them in the wild.

[pauraque]

Yeah, definitely. Male Barrow's have a teardrop-shaped white spot by their eye instead of round, but the females look nearly identical.