Happy St Cuthbert's Day! Post your pics of Cuddy's (eider) ducks; they're named for the saint protecting them when he lived as a hermit on Inner Farne off the coast of Northumberland
I have uploaded to #flickr some high resolution #photographs I have taken in #Svalbard some days ago. As always, they are free, licensed as CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Some much-needed good news - I'm hearing reports of eider duck creches with hundreds of birds in them, about 1,000 ducklings in total, on Morecambe Bay.
Presumably these have come from Chapel Island, an isolated rock out in the bay that hosts hundreds of Eider nests. For the past few years it's been suffering fox predation but looks like it's avoided it this year!