PUBLISHED: 09:02 19 November
2017
This time of the year is best to
see ducks’ dazzling plumage, says Emily Kench of the RSPB. Here’s her East
Anglian top 10.
Everything is a little empty at
the moment. The warmth of bonfires has passed; reds, golds and greens of
December feel just that bit too far away; and the branches of our once
well-dressed trees stretch naked. Nothing lifts the slate-washed skies.
Even blacked-out silhouettes of
passing wintering wildfowl can’t offer contrast in a greyscale landscape. They
add angles, loose shapes, train-horn honks, and impact still air with the beat
of their wings, but no colour. From a distance that is…
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