Red Breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)

This male Red breasted merganser was fishing off Port Ban this afternoon and I eventually got up reasonably close.  He was catching small flatfish - which were just that little bit too large to be swallowed easily.  He managed in the end though...

Red-breasted mergansers (Mergus serrator)

A group were displaying in Loch Indaal earlier today.  There was a Slavonian grebe (Podiceps auritus) much further out in the Loch, but it must have dived when I took this shot - its a grebe thing...
Carl