Thursday, April 29, 2010

Cotton allows closer approach

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 ...

8 comments:

  1. Great Yabby, Tony.
    What about the Flintstones?
    Yabba-Dabba-Doo?
    Denis

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  2. The Pygmy-goose looks great. Such a cute little bird.

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  3. Wonderful shots of the Cotton Pygmy-goose.

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  4. Great shots of the Pygmy-goose. The color of the water is great too.

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  5. Hi Denis: Find Fred's yabbering no longer works for me. But Seinfeld still does me.

    Hi 3Ms: Nice to get glimpse of the Cotton's subtle colouring. BTW, two males and female yest. Gone today (Sat).

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  6. G'day Tony,
    Are they sedentary? Might still be in the vicinity. Nice to see them, they'd be a bit unusual wouldn't they?
    Gouldiae

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  7. Hi Gouldiae: Yabbies move around. Nah, just kidding. Cottons come and go, mainly go. They like deeper water than Tyto.

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  8. Hi Gouldiae: Yabbies move around. Nah, just kidding. Cottons come and go, mainly go. They like deeper water than Tyto.

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