Closer look at female Cotton Pygmy-goose (Nettapus coromandelianus). Male gone.
Female today remarkably unflighty.
Allowed me to walk to lagoon edge, about 20 metres from it feeding alone.
Updates: Comb-crested Jacana still on four eggs. Seems juvenile Jacana quads reduced to three in one family, two in the other. Shining Flycatchers still on x? eggs.
And here's a six-year first: yabby (Cherax spp) on a walking track. But no sign of Dodos ...
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Great Yabby, Tony.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the Flintstones?
Yabba-Dabba-Doo?
Denis
The Pygmy-goose looks great. Such a cute little bird.
ReplyDeleteWonderful shots of the Cotton Pygmy-goose.
ReplyDeleteGreat shots of the Pygmy-goose. The color of the water is great too.
ReplyDeleteHi Denis: Find Fred's yabbering no longer works for me. But Seinfeld still does me.
ReplyDeleteHi 3Ms: Nice to get glimpse of the Cotton's subtle colouring. BTW, two males and female yest. Gone today (Sat).
G'day Tony,
ReplyDeleteAre they sedentary? Might still be in the vicinity. Nice to see them, they'd be a bit unusual wouldn't they?
Gouldiae
Hi Gouldiae: Yabbies move around. Nah, just kidding. Cottons come and go, mainly go. They like deeper water than Tyto.
ReplyDeleteHi Gouldiae: Yabbies move around. Nah, just kidding. Cottons come and go, mainly go. They like deeper water than Tyto.
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