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poledark Member

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Not to good but these are mum and chick Moorhen...

 

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Den

"When through the woods and forest glades I wanderAnd hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur,And hear the brook, and feel the breeze;and see the waves crash on the shore,Then sings my soul..................

for all you Spodders. https://youtu.be/XYxsY-FbSic

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This is a Water Rail.

 

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Re the Moorhen above, I have always thought that they are very underated and dismissed by bird lovers...cracking looking bird.

 

Den

"When through the woods and forest glades I wanderAnd hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur,And hear the brook, and feel the breeze;and see the waves crash on the shore,Then sings my soul..................

for all you Spodders. https://youtu.be/XYxsY-FbSic

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poledark:

  Re the Moorhen above, I have always thought that they are very underated and dismissed by bird lovers...cracking looking bird.

Agreed. Smashing bird.

 

Dick Walker once wrote a hilarious piece about a moorhen called "Bert". Dick slung a few freebie lobworms to him, as he seemed quite friendly. Then he wound in his rods and went around to Fred's tent for breakfast.

 

Came back, and Bert had got in amongst the lobworm buckets.

 

"Bert waddled down to the lake and swam away, floating with a good three inches less of freeboard than usual" :D

 

 

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World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

"Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato

...only things like fresh bait and cold beer...

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