BIRDS! G.C. Bird Survey photos.

Really beautiful photographs WOO and Dave W, thanks.

Here are some more action photos, this time of mute swans at Chew Valley Lake this weekend just gone, going through the display motions for the ladies!

 

Caught this Coot doing a bit of nesting material gathering at Chew Valley Lake.



And this one having a bath...





Coot incubating eggs

 

Tufted Duck - Chew Valley Lake

 

Today at Stover Country Park, Newton Abbot, Devon.

Great Crested Grebes nesting and Grey Heron.

 

G.C.Grebe doing a bit of egg tending....



Parenting Grebe style....

 

Grey Heron preening, Stover C.P.

 

My first ducklings of 2009 - Stover C.P.

 

Grey Heron - hunting

 

Courting Gt.Crested Grebes

 

Thank you Woo xx

I've been really enjoying your estuary birds - where about do you see them?

 

Lovely photo's Kath,and they look even better framed:gnthb: Nice to see the Great Crested Grebes courting and also the baby Mallards. We saw some hatching out of their shells through the slats of a bridge the other week,but because the chick in question was shaking so much to get the shell off of it's back they have come out blurred:( Nature is so wonderful though:D

Woo,my dear friend,good map of your part of the world.Mr K and I were down your way the other year as you know and it is such a beautiful area:thmb:

 

WOO - wonderful action shots of the swans and gull. Swans provide very dramatic photos don't they.

Marvellous!

Thanks for your comments Kathy