Board Bluebells Chicks

The sightings board is revealing lots of Spring activity

Lots of bluebells and whitebells (ok, I made it up) in the shady place

moorhen chicks - (actually you don't seem to pronounce it correctly - I pronounce it 'myrrhhen)' . The mother was discretely furtive with them, generally managing just to obscure them from my view (hence bad photo)

a moorhen count

20.05.08
a clutch of moorhen chicks are being raised near the aquifer,
east of the main bridge across The Mere.
Safety seems assured by the nearby straw rolls
and the netting that holds them together.

However, the herons are after them.

I counted four chicks and witnessed two heron attacks.
All survived, but for how long I wonder?


on the prowl

look carefully and you may just count all four chicks

feeding time