Velvet Scoter Melanitta fusca

Velvet Scoters, Joppa (Midlothian, UK), 19th March 2014

Velvet Scoter, Cockenzie and Port Seton (East Lothian, UK), 31st December 2013

Velvet Scoters, Leven (Fife, UK), 7th February 2023

Velvet Scoter, Lower Largo (Fife, UK), 27th December 2019

Velvet Scoter, Poolewe (Highland, UK), 15th March 2024

Velvet Scoter (with Surf Scoter, left, in fourth photo), Sheringham (Norfolk, UK), 17th November 2012

This was by far my most unexpected record of a Velvet Scoter and the only one I've ever seen inland. I found it in the near-dark at dusk as I was scanning through the gull roost on Wroxham Broad. It was not present the following morning so as far as I know I was the only person to see it.

Velvet Scoter, Wroxham Broad (Norfolk, UK), 26th December 2009