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| The Water Rail's back |
Yes, the
Water Rails [
Rallus aquaticus]
Rale d'Eau are back... and we've got two of them this year. We spotted them for the first time yesterday... and we know we've got two because Pauline was looking at one whilst I was trying to get the camera to focus on another! In the end I moved round and managed to get some good shots of the one Pauline was watching.
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| Water rail's best side... |
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| Water Rail bankside.... |
Also the
Dabchick (or
Little Grebe) [
Tachybaptus ruficollis]
Grebe castagneux is back... but the only photo I got of that shows an out of focus pair of frilly knickers!
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| You take your right foot out and shake it all about! |
What we seem to be observing is birds that normally are recorded on the etangs appear to translocate to running water... not migrate as the local guide book, "
Les Oiseaux du Bassin de la Claise Tourangelle", seems to indicate. So, because we have the bief, we get more moorhens, plus the water rails and the dabchick in winter.... where they a more assured of a good meal as it would be a very hard freeze indeed that stopped the bief running completely.
Our resident moorhens that Pauline
blogged about the other week don't need to migrate... they are on running water all the year round..
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