They didn't appreciate my frightening off their parents so I took a hasty photograph and retreated.
The adult birds fly over the water and feed in the estuary down below my house, wafting their spoony bills back and forward through the briny water to catch shrimpy, crabby, water-flea-ish things.
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Was the next not out of reach? you would expect them to be tree-top dwellers?
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It was about waist-high. I was surprised and it was the mankiest thing you've ever seen - just a flattened top with a few twigs criss-crossed to make a platform and right in the teeth of the gale.
Poor wee things!
Love spoonbills, have a couple of photos of some from the peninsula
Nice David.
Those birds look spectacular against a grey sky - their feathers seem whiter than white - how that can be I don't know.
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