BIRD NEWS:571

First today, another abandoned egg - like on my visit not long before with Liz. I can now rule out swan eggs, leaving us to conclude it's a duck or goose that laid it. As ducks are more likely to be in a tree, I will vote for it being a duck egg that fell from the nest. Then I walked to the waterfall enclosure.

The real thing and the notice board depicting the black-necked grebe. There were several in the pond with the harlequin ducks still. Next, we see the black-necked swans and a couple of magpie geese in the background.

At the feeding station the usuall array of pigeons along with a jackdaw were on this occasion accompanied by the red breasted geese and what looks like an aussie woodduck...

I tried not to take too many pigeon pictures - but this fellow landed right in front of my face on an info board to the side and stared at me as if knowing my camera was magnetized to it....

I then wandered into the diving birds exhibit and took a shot of the common scoters basking in the first sunshine rays of spring.

Back home, and the blue and great tits have been gobbling through the peanuts like I gobble through strawberries. When the next door neighbors shut up, I can hear the birds and frogs in the evening - but as our neighbors are noisy people, I generally have to wait til dawn chorus time to really enjoy the birdlife in my yard.

HERE is a link to a WWT dawn chorus video.