Fall-Winter - 57
A group of
Ferruginous ducks ...
... winter visitors
to Indian wetlands ...
Eurasian Coot ... and
Common Moorhen
provide good
size comparison in
field conditions ...
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Keoladeo National Park
Bharatpur
Rajasthan
India
17 February 2020
Spring is in the air - love is in the air.
Well, very fine weather yesterday and Wolfgang and I went on a bike trip along a small creek called Ostbach (Eastern Creek). I originates in a nearby park and it flows into one of the German feeders of the Rhine. There are five ponds along the creek...
I took this one a year ago in our town. I believe it's a male, but am ready to be corrected. These birds, along with House Martins & Swifts, fly around the square in front of the house all day long. Wiggie Woo (our dog) and I sit on the front step in the mornings watching them flit by and...
This is four of the five Coots that had a bit of 'handbags at dawn' the other day. The big fella came out on top and the others scarpered in double quick time!
These little fellas look so docile 99% of the time but, when they square up to each other, they're anything but! There were 5 males involved in this fracas, it was way to close to us for me to get them all in shot, but this is one of my favourites.
Our birding day last Tuesday yielded some great shots, and lots of firsts for me. However, the image that made me smile, and still does every time I look at it, is this one.
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