Another quick post today. The moorhen chicks seem to be doing well, spending as much time out of the nest as in it, while the adults are being kept busy finding a constant supply of food.
These photos are all cropped to some extent and were taken from a sufficiently safe distance to avoid disturbing the birds.
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
dW
12 Apr 2014Cute, funny chicks … and mum looks about as good as a moorhen can look, considering. Those crazy, underripe asparagus legs always break me up.
Words
12 Apr 2014dW, moorhens and coots have the strangest legs and feet. I believe it helps them on the soft silt.
Darko
12 Apr 2014Food for four of them, parents must be very busy!
Words
12 Apr 2014Darko, there are more than four but some of them were swimming with the other adult. I think probably somewhere between 7 and 9 chicks, though they may not all survive the many and various predators.