Thanks to a conversation with Barry Nightingale
this evening, he and I agree that today's two immature VELVET SCOTERS at Gypsy
Lane West, Broom GP, represent the 11th county record and 20th-21st individuals
and the first in 25 years!! An excellent find by Jim Gurney and seemingly the
same two immatures that were recently present at Willen Lake South Basin on
7th-13th November but where have they been in the interim?
VELVET SCOTERS IN BEDFORDSHIRE
(21 recorded between 1983 and
2016)
1) A female at Chimney Corner CP on 19-20
November 1983 relocated on Brogborough Lake on 6 December;
2) A first-winter drake on Stewartby Lake on
19-20 & 24 December 1985 relocated at Millbrook Pit on Christmas Day and on
Lidlington Fishing Pit on 27 December, where it remained until 13 January
1986;
3-4) Two at Stewartby Lake on 9 January
1986;
5-6) Two drakes at Brogborough Lake on 30
January 1986;
7) One at Stewartby Lake on 14 April
1986;
8-10) Three drakes at Stewartby Lake on 26
December 1986;
11-13) Two drakes & a female on Stewartby
Lake on 20 November 1988;
14-17) Three females & a drake at Radwell
Pits on 23 April 1989;
18-19) Two drakes on Stewartby Lake on 21
November 1991;
20-21) Two immatures at Gypsy Lane West, Broom
GP, on 22 November 2016
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