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Status
Resident at wetlands throughout Ireland.
Identification
A secretive and skulking species which is more often heard than seen. Can sometimes be seen when it emerges from dense wetland vegetation briefly before disappearing again. A small bird with a rounded rear to its body, which is slender and laterally compressed in order to help it slip through dense vegetation such as reeds. Has a long bill which is red on the adult bird. Legs are long with very long toes which help spread its weight on wet ground. The upperparts are dark brown with black spotting. In the adult the body and 'face' are blue-grey, the flanks and belly are barred black and white and the under-tail coverts (which are easy to see on the cocked tail) are whitish. The juvenile bird is similar to the adult but is whitish underneath (not grey), has a pale bill and a stronger patterning on the head. Has short rounded wings and when flying into cover dangles its legs.
Voice
A distinctive call like a pig squealing coming from dense vegetation is a sure sign that a Water Rail is close by.
Diet
Eats both plant and animal matter. Feeds on land or in shallow water, will some times swim and will even, though rarely, dive. Food includes fish, insects, frogs, seeds and roots.
Breeding
Breeds in emergent vegetation such as marshes and reed beds. Most nesting territories recorded in Britain have a number of common elements:- static or slow moving fresh water, often open mud and invariably tall, emergent vegetation. The vegetation is often tall reeds, sedges, reedmace or rush, but they can also be found in damp field corners. Nest is built close to the ground, near or on water, usually in thick vegetation. Widespread in both inland and coastal areas. Ireland has a great abundance of Water Rail, which is no doubt due to our great number of wetlands.
Wintering
Widespread
Monitored by
Countryside Bird Survey
What's missing in Hong Kong is... elbow room. When you're out walking around, you feel as if you're going to be run over by something. Buses, Tram, Taxi, people and more people.
A rover specialized in transporting the very hazardous cargo that is compressed (or super-pressurized) puzzleium
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I'm feeling incredibly rusty with bricks!! Just a mehish tablescrap to prove i'm not dead.
I liked the effect of the fog around the peak with a long exposure of nearly 3 minutes. View from Zwinglipasshütte in Alpstein, Swiss mountains.
This is a seven shot pano using the Nikon 70-200mm F4 at 70mm. The level of detail captured by this lens / D850 combo is (to me) quite incredible. I'm sorry I had to compress the shot to upload to Flickr.
The sun didn't appear until an hour after "sunrise". Thanks Digidirect and Nikon for organising this event. Maybe we'll have better luck with the weather next time. If there is a next time, please?
(Hot air balloons also don't operate in crazy wind conditions like ... this morning)
This is an image of 66120 on the Milford West to Hull approaching Crabley Creek. The extra zoom offered by the Sony has picked up the double semaphores protecting the crossing at Cave and the signals either side of Broomfleet. It's also lost a bit of picture quality with the extended end of the lens being digital opposed to optical zoom..
NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm, 124 sec at f/20, ISO 100
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