Ferruginous Duck and Avocet chicks at the Guadalhorce-Mouth

June 27 2014


Dear reader!

How life goes …! Now I had been at the Lake Steinhude, where the rare Ferruginous Ducks are repopulated again, and were I couldn't even find a single one. So what a joy to be able to see them at all and that at the Mouth of the Guadalhorce:

As it is written in the books of birds, male and female are on first sight only to distinguished by the color of the eyes, light for the males, dark for the females::

""Well, notice! The stars at the Guadalhorce-Mouth are we, the male White-headed Ducks!" one of them rose up:

Too funny the numerous Stilt chicks of different ages, which …

… were guarded with unlimitted patience …

… by their parents:

And here the stars of the Rio Viejo: two already big Avocet chicks, who were born at the Guadalhorce:

And also the pair at the big lagoon had been breeding successfully and …

… three only few days old chicks were constantly walking the banks permanently foraging:

As Mum then showed them how to train their wings the little ones were astonished!

The photo is not really a good one, but shows one of the five Purple Herons, we saw!

With this, still young Flamingoes you see, how …

… their wings slowly but steady are changing to pink color

It was a tremendous day at the Guadalhorce-Mouth!

Best regards

Birgit Kremer

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