Water Rail
Water Rail / rallus aquaticus. Attenborough, Nottinghamshire. 20/03/18.
'NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER'.
There are reportedly four Water Rails showing around the small reedbed outside the Visitor Centre at the moment. They frequently search for food in the drainage channel, giving clear views of feeding behaviours.
These birds always look extremely bad tempered to me, not the sort to be messed with, should you ever come face to face in a reedbed - and this one particularly so. Yet their looks and the blood curdling squeals they emit from time to time, mask a true wimp of a bird. They appear to live life in a constant state of nervous tension where the slightest noise or movement has them scuttling off into cover. Water Rails ... 'mean', 'hard' ? Not a bit of it, they are frightened of their own shadows!
Water Rail
Water Rail / rallus aquaticus. Attenborough, Nottinghamshire. 20/03/18.
'NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER'.
There are reportedly four Water Rails showing around the small reedbed outside the Visitor Centre at the moment. They frequently search for food in the drainage channel, giving clear views of feeding behaviours.
These birds always look extremely bad tempered to me, not the sort to be messed with, should you ever come face to face in a reedbed - and this one particularly so. Yet their looks and the blood curdling squeals they emit from time to time, mask a true wimp of a bird. They appear to live life in a constant state of nervous tension where the slightest noise or movement has them scuttling off into cover. Water Rails ... 'mean', 'hard' ? Not a bit of it, they are frightened of their own shadows!