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....
Very interesting picture of the hatched egg-- at least I hope it hatched. I also love that tall picture of the Trumpeter swans.
ReplyDeletei 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.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're able to get out for another photo safari soon.
ReplyDeletelocally 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.
ReplyDeleteThat's a shame. Hopefully it won't be more than a few weeks.
ReplyDeletethats 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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