White-tailed eagle at Red Lake

Another fruitless trip to Red Lake today in search of white-headed duck but I did fluke a fabulous adult white-tailed eagle that settled on a sheet of ice some 50 yards from me.

These beautiful eagles, with a wing span of eight feet are never common in their range but they winter in Azerbaijan in reasonable numbers.

I then rounded the day off with a drive through Gobustan National Reserve and added a second lifer, two fabulous male Finsch's wheatear.