Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) In Winter plumage Dungeness RSPB

            This Rare (or certainly uncommon) visitor to Kent has been showing well at Dungeness Dengemarsh gravel pit but it has relocated to the ARC pit also at Dungeness and is likely to be much harder to photograph now but still ok to see at distance . If you are going to make a long journey to photograph it try to check which pit it is on before you travel down . Hopefully it will have moved back to Dengemarsh ! There Is a Male Smew and his mate and at least one Slavonian Grebe also at Dungeness at the moment .
 This bird feeds by diving for fish crabs etc it is a large bird with a wing span of up to 4 feet  122 cms and a weight of up to seven pounds (3.2kg)
There are about 600 of these birds that over winter here mainly in Scotland where some of these birds breed ( approx 200 pairs)  . Being the rarest of the three Divers that visit our shores I feel I have been very lucky to have caught up with it on several occasions ! 

   

Taken on: January 14, 2018

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Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II, f/8.0, 1/1250 sec, 558mm, ISO 640 (more info) (hide info)

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