whoooooose... are these!

[Jackson4]

There is always a heron on this beck but today there was two of them 30 ft away from these? ..arent heron eggs blue?

 

[spin cycle]

don't know...but bless

 

[AGN76]

 

[Water Wheel]

Moorhen ?
Try Google Images

 

[Newby]

Water hen

 

[Dry Rot]

Don't know, but don't herons nest in trees...and usually in multiples, like rooks?

 

[llamedos]

There is always a heron on this beck but today there was two of them 30 ft away from these? ..arent heron eggs blue?


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Moor hen

 

[Man_in_black]

Don't know, but don't herons nest in trees...and usually in multiples, like rooks?

Yep. User to work on an estate on Anglesey. Had a large heronry(??) Lots kf herons all nesting together. Was like something out of jurassic park!

 

[jemski]

Yep. User to work on an estate on Anglesey. Had a large heronry(??) Lots kf herons all nesting together. Was like something out of jurassic park!

Yes they sound like dinosaurs!!!

 

[It was already broken.]

Moorhen eggs. The Heron is just there waiting for them to hatch so it can eat the babies.

 

[Guiggs]

I hate Herons.
Have you seen their greasy black quiff?
They're like some kind of dirty old man of the bird world...
"Weeeelllll heloooo.....you're a pretty little thing aren't you??"
Yuk!!
Eggs are from a Moorhen!

 

[Jackson4]

Ahhh thats what it was i saw the other week, 5 sheep got out over a bit of fence to the main beck damaged when it flooded one year, when i was looking for them i saw 2 brightly coloured duck things shoot up, never seen a moorhen before.
After walking half a mile through all the nettles and brambles either side of the beck in real hot sunny day, got back up to the field and the bu**ers were back in, they'd been sat under some trees out the sun just a few feet up from were the wire was down, must have hopped back in while i was looking

 

[llamedos]

Ahhh thats what it was i saw the other week, 5 sheep got out over a bit of fence that the main beck damaged when it flooded one year, when i was looking for them i saw 2 brightly coloured duck things shoot up, never seen a moorhen before.
After walking half a mile through all the nettles and brambles either side of the beck in real hot sunny day, got back up to the field and the bu**ers were back in, they'd been sat under some trees out the sun just a few feet up from were the wire was down, must have hopped back in while i was looking

If you see one quite similar but with white on their head they are Coots

The Moorhen are quite an interesting bird to watch, and will defend their nest with some vigour from all comers, once the hen has laid her first few eggs she starts to sit, but the drake will continue to make the nest around her, raising it up higher by the day, once the first few chick have hatched, they then swap, the hen will take off with her little brood, and the drake then sits the rest of the clutch until they have all hatched.

 

[Old Boar]

The chicks are little balls of grey fluff, but if you disturb them, they unfold these endless legs from somewhere and walk on the weed on top of the water. They can go underwater for quite some while and pop up yards away! I love watching them, and hearing the call in the evening, like random morse code!

 

[Jackson4]

Not very big are they moorhens! Mother was somewhere between the size of a fat blackbird and a pigeon. Was over there yesterday and had a look, 6 eggs and only one chick so maybe the heron has had them.

Nervous birds, mother just disappeared with nowhere to hide really, must have been in the bank somewhere.