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I did not expect at all to meet this little dude ...
At first, I had absolutely no idea what it was, I did not know that crane nestlings were reddish like that and it was more or less swimming on the water like a duck.
I should have known though, as 2 minutes before I was secretly trying to approach a pair of common cranes in the swamp, that eventually flew away. I had never thought about where Common cranes are nesting, I was assuming it was way more in the north of Europe.
Anyway after taking a shot, I did not stay much longer to avoid creating too much disturbance :(
Feeling for my fellow Kiwi affected by the devastating cyclone Gabrielle.
Blend of recent photos taken from Queens St in Te Awakairangi / Lower Hutt and of the stream from the bridge at Otaihanga reserve.
Came across this swamp land in a clearing and was struck by the bleach white cadavers of trees. A stark reminder of how fragile nature truly is.
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Other trees and shrubs like pond cypress, blackgum, red maple, wax myrtle, and buttonwood are also be found in cypress swamps. Animals like white-tailed deer, minks, raccoons, pileated woodpeckers, purple gallinules, egrets, herons, alligators, frogs, turtles, and snakes are often found as well.
"When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature."
Henry David Thoreau
Interesting fact: Swamp Sparrows sometimes stick their head under water to try to capture aquatic invertebrates.
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