Moorhen
Unlike their close relatives Coots, Moorhen do not have lobed toes to facilitate swimming (I have pasted a Coot photo in the comments below for comparison). You can see here that Moorhens have long, thin, green toes, and it was actually the green colouration of the legs that gave rise to its scientific name chloropus, meaning green-footed. Moorhens do quite a few unusual things at nesting time. They usually start to incubate when they lay the first egg, so in a clutch of seven the young will hatch over a period of about seven days. But oddly for subsequent broods they wait for the full clutch before incubating so the young hatch together. This is odd because the young are nidifugous (means nest-fleeing) in that they walk around as soon as they hatch, so it is difficult for parents to look after different aged young while they continue incubating. Another unusual thing is that the young of the first brood stick around to help their parents raise the siblings in subsequent broods. This is quite rare in birds, although House Martins also do it.
Moorhen
Unlike their close relatives Coots, Moorhen do not have lobed toes to facilitate swimming (I have pasted a Coot photo in the comments below for comparison). You can see here that Moorhens have long, thin, green toes, and it was actually the green colouration of the legs that gave rise to its scientific name chloropus, meaning green-footed. Moorhens do quite a few unusual things at nesting time. They usually start to incubate when they lay the first egg, so in a clutch of seven the young will hatch over a period of about seven days. But oddly for subsequent broods they wait for the full clutch before incubating so the young hatch together. This is odd because the young are nidifugous (means nest-fleeing) in that they walk around as soon as they hatch, so it is difficult for parents to look after different aged young while they continue incubating. Another unusual thing is that the young of the first brood stick around to help their parents raise the siblings in subsequent broods. This is quite rare in birds, although House Martins also do it.