A pair of Lesser Scaup

10th November 2025. Lesser Scaup is pretty much an annual visitor down here in Cornwall and Devon these days, I,ve seen a few and got some record shots , but when this pair turned up on the boating lake at Helston in Cornwall, I had to eventually give in and go and go to take a look. Its a very easy site to visit, ( even free parking) with a number of water birds always presant and at quite close quarters. The weather was changable to say the least with brillint sunshine one minute followed by heavy downpours, but the Scaups were showing really well and lots of nice photos were to be had.