Tufted Ducks and Tunnicliffe’s Brooke Bond Bird Portraits
There’s a pair of Tufted Ducks at Stover Country park:
![Tufted Duck - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Hall-of-Einar-0735.jpg)
They are spectacular birds and I enjoy watching and photographing them for quite a while:
Back home I look them up in the Brooke Bond tea cards album from 1957 illustrated by Charles Tunnicliffe:
The illustration is characteristically brilliant:
![The Hall of Einar - Tunnicliffe](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Hall-of-Einar-5025.jpg)
“The female is much browner then the male (here shown) and her crest is not so long as his.”
To me, they seem like a floating fashion parade:
![Tufted Duck - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Hall-of-Einar-0719.jpg)