Our World & World Bird Wednesday - A company of Crakes

I sincerely hope you all survived Christmas and the various

assorted cholesterol pies, I also hope no paramedics had their

feasts interrupted due to over-eathin heart attacks . . . ho, ho,

ho, t'is the season for much folly, fa la la, fa la la, la, la, la . . .

On my way to pick up some cherries from our local orchardist,

I passed his dam opposite to the golf course and was treated to

a massed nursery of young Spotless Crake, Porzana tabuensis.

It seems my ID has been called into question, thank you

Stewart M and on further research, it could just as easily be a

Black-Tailed Native Hen, Tribonyx ventralis, either way, its a

newby to me.

There were hundreds of them and, although I pulled up behind

some light tree and grass cover, by the time I crept out to get a

decent shot, most of them had taken to the air and disappeared

into the rough of the golf course.

These last two shots are rather heavily cropped but were at least

enough to identify them. Another lifer chalked up.

A little further from home, just a few Pelicans at the little Wetland

just outside Murray Bridge.

Stay safe, be (reasonably) good and, with all the goodies around

that we all make at this season, a little of what you fancy does

you good.