Yesterday, again to the “Baillon’s crakes’ reserve”.
Near the southern entrance, a reed warbler sings.
A female tufted duck swims.
A reed bunting song.
In the southern lake: shoveler ducks. Egyptian geese. A Canada goose nesting. An oystercatcher. A northern lapwing drives away a magpie.
A common tern. Two black-tailed godwits wading.
A spoonbill lands in the northern lake.
Redshank and greenfinch sounds.
Four swifts fly past.
The water lilies have started flowering.
A domestic duck escapee resting on the dike near the north-south bridge.
A mute swan swimming in the north-south canal, with six cygnets.
Redshanks on northern lake mudflats.
Two barnacle geese. A black swan swimming.
Near the railway, two adult shelducks. Like the last time when I was here, with seven ducklings. They swim past a grey heron on the bank. So, not one little one caught since last time (by a cat, a pike, or a grey heron).
A sedge warbler sings behind the shelduck family, in the reedbeds.
Great crested grebes and coots swim here with youngsters as well.
A hare in the same spot as last time, probably the same individual.
A group of five ring-necked parakeets flies overhead, calling.
Two goldfinches singing in a treetop.
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It always amazes me twhen I see cygnets that young that they will turn into swans – it doesn’t look in them, so to speak.
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Well, if cygnets would be much bigger, they would have to come from much bigger eggs. Which would be a problem for mother swans. Swan eggs are already among the biggest birds’ eggs.
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That’s very true – do you know it never occured to me! doh!
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Hi Stephen, swans have in common with eg, some dinosaur species (dinosaurs are ancestral to birds) that young animals are really small and have to grow much to reach adulthood. Comparatively the biggest bird eggs (where maybe young birds have to grow the least) are kiwis’.
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