Clapham Common: Tufted Ducks in Flight

Taking flight in large ("L").

I went to Clapham Common first thing this morning as there was no wind so I was hoping to film birds for my project... Hmmm, 3 hours from 6AM and not a single bird cruised past. I knew that it'd be especially challenging on the common (birds tend to cruise from A to B: from tower to tower or tree to tree, or along rivers, say) but I was still hoping to get a few lucky shots. I did enjoy filming swifts scooping insects from the surface of the boating pond in slow motion, but they certainly weren't cruising. Frustrating: there are so few windless days that it felt like a bit of a waste of one...

ANYWAY, I had fun taking photographs, and it was a beautiful morning.
I really struggled to choose my blip today as I also went to Wandsworth Common in the afternoon (for the first time since my previous vac.).


Blip alternatives:
Juvenile robin
Magpie iridescence (and others to the right)
Preening coot (and others to the left)

Others:
Juvenile robin (right from here)
Wandsworth Common Egyptian geese & goslings (right from here)
Heron on Clapham Common (right from here)
Mallardlings on the boating pond (right from here)
Tufted ducks on the boating pond (right from here)