More portraits of the bird life down at Falmer Pond, though this time I’ve focused on the species that tend to live in rather than around the water.
I can’t do a post like this without including a mallard duck, so here’s one standing on a submerged rock in the morning light.
We have two species of rail at the pond: the moorhen, which is by far the most numerous:
And the coot, which is quite a bit larger. I’ve seen three at Falmer this year, a slight improvement on numbers over 2013.
I’ve posted plenty of pictures of the local greylags recently, but here’s one more: Greylag among the Daffodils.
Closing picture? Another mallard.
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
Darko
21 Mar 2014Mallards are the beginning and ending of every pond 😛
Words
23 Mar 2014Darko, so true. I couldn’t do a pond special without them.
dW
21 Mar 2014Wonderful, book-worthy shots, Words! My favourite is the greylag amongst the daffodils.
Words
23 Mar 2014dW, thanks! This was a bit of a cute session. I had a great line on the greylag, but missed the very best moments. This was just before it moved away. As it happens I hope to get some book-worthy shots of blue tits over the coming weeks… They’ll need to be as they’re for a book project.