RND on the move, Again!

On the 29th December 2009 a drake Ring Necked Duck was discovered on the ICI Reservior in Thornton by Ian Gardner, this constituted the first Fylde record of the species. Since then it has moved around the county massively so I thought I would do a brief summary of the dates and sites it has visited during its time:

29/12/2009 - 29/12/2009 - Thornton ICI Reservoir

31/12/2009 - 01/01/2010 - Preesall Flashes

01/01/2010 - 02/01/2010 - Fleetwood Marine Lakes

03/01/2010 - 03/01/2010 - Marton Mere

04/01/2010 - 04/01/2010 - Fleetwood Marine Lakes

05/01/2010 - 06/01/2010 - Marton Mere

07/01/2010 - 08/01/2010 - Fleetwood Marine Lakes

12/01/2010 - 12/01/2010 - Preesall Flashes

21/01/2010 - 21/01/2010 - Fleetwood Nature Reserve

22/01/2010 - 31/01/2010 - Thornton ICI Reservoir

02/02/2010 - 03/02/2010 - Marton Mere

16/03/2010 - 21/03/2010 - Thornton ICI Reservoir

26/09/2010 - 26/09/2010 - Martin Mere WWT

22/12/2010 - 28/12/2010 - Marton Mere

27/01/2011 - 18/02/2011 - Thornton ICI Reservoir and Fleetwood Nature Reserve

03/03/2011 - 09/03/2011 - Bispham Marsh

23/03/2011 - 23/03/2011 - Marton Mere

24/03/2011 - 23/03/2011 - Seaforth LWT

So over its 451 day stay so far it has visited 8 different sites in the county, and the longest it has stayed at one place is only 9 days. This bird helps to highlight how much the ducks in our county move around, sometimes switching daily between 2 sites 10 miles apart, or like it has done today travelled over 40 miles south in 1 day. I wonder where it will turn up next, back on the patch preferably.