Thursday, March 12, 2020

BIRD NEWS:564



The black necked swans were hanging out with the black backed radjah shelduck on a clump of land today - with the magpie geese not far away. This Nene decided to look at us - in case we had food with us, I expect.



Liz and I walked along the boardwalk and spotted a large broken egg sheell. It might be a goose or swan egg we thought - but do not know enough about egg identification to say for sure -only that it was large...


Nexr, we cam e across the trumpeter swans - who came out of hiding as we walked closer, as we could not see them as we first spotted their lake.


Liz and I notied that they head-bopped and called to one another, and seemd to be getting aong well - as the Bewick duo have been. As the swans at WWT Arundel are all fairly recent replacements for former stock that died, it may be another year or two before any nesting and parenting come into play though.


We came out from the sand martin hide and spotted some photographers hanging about the wildlife garden. Assuming it was the firecrest they were after I took  a look - shot a few shots of the flitty bird....hoping for some good pictures this time. Well....


6 comments:

  1. Very interesting picture of the hatched egg-- at least I hope it hatched. I also love that tall picture of the Trumpeter swans.

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  2. i think it probably just fell out of a nest....or a bird....or got stolen by a fox or something....it was on the walkway.

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  3. I hope you're able to get out for another photo safari soon.

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  4. locally yes - but not here, they shut the center as of today. the last few days they were opening outside areas only without facilities to members only in limited ammount - now noone can go in but the staff who m ind the wildlife.

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  5. That's a shame. Hopefully it won't be more than a few weeks.

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  6. thats why i wanted you to get the link to their photo updates - i cant go in person, but we can all see what is happening at the reserve thanks to staff pictures/videos from WWT Arundel...

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