Tufted Ducks and Tunnicliffe’s Brooke Bond Bird Portraits
There’s a pair of Tufted Ducks at Stover Country park:

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 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:
