Shelducks - Tadorna tadorna

[Chocky]

Swimming against the tide on a very windy day
Larger than a mallard but smaller than and a goose a sort of intermediate between ducks and geese and very beautiful.
The male has a nodule at the base of his bill and the feamale has whitish marking on a plane bill They eat Crabs and Winkles as well as greases and are Amber listed

The second photo shows a male and a female