Also caught in midair, an Intermediate Egret (Ardea intermedia) sets off beady-eyed to drive another away from its patch near the centre of the main lagoon (parts of which are again drying after last month's unseasonal 250mm of rain).
Plenty of Purple Swamphens (Porphyrio porphyrio) lately, though proving difficult to sneak up on. Seems they always have the odds stacked in their favour. For the present ...
They'll need to build a second runway to accommodate all those incoming geese :-)
ReplyDeleteAuto reply to all runways everywhere: Nimby!
ReplyDeleteThe next thing you know they'll be complaining about the baggage retrieval system at Heathrow!
ReplyDeleteThey were very considerate geese. I hope they didn't all land on top of one another.
Great shots and nice story, as usual, Tony.
ReplyDeleteStacked, stacking? You were working on a pun there, but pulled out just before the inevitable "stack". Ill do it for you.
Cheers
Denis
Hi Bronwen: Sneaky flattened perspective exaggerated the stack.
ReplyDeleteHi Denis: Ouch, I'm hurt. Slate my pix, but never accuse ex-sub of missing pun: first word in blog text.