Eye Contact With A Very Distant Drake Smew

I went to Seventy Acres Lake again this morning to resume my drake smew hunt as I've never seen or photographed one before. They're a bit uncommon, there are only two pages featuring smews on blip.

I clambered down a bank near where I have photographed a redhead (female) smew in the past and waited. Then I thought I could see the drake's striking black and white plumage through some bushes in the distance. Eventually the handsome bird showed itself and went on a fishing foray, returning to the bushes afterwards and sadly keeping well away from me at all times.

I've included the very indistinct head-on image to amuse myself as it continues my eye contact theme. Shame that my faraway main image doesn't show much plumage detail.