Birding the lake has been a bit hard work recently with few birds to be seen and to good ones, not allowing photographs. The best birds in May were a single Corn Crake flushed from the edge of a small wet area and a flyover male Ruppell’s Weaver. Some of the local waterbirds were more photogenic with a number of them in moult as can be seen from some of the photos below. Numbers are dropping but there are still plenty of herons and egrets to see.
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Black-crowned Night Heron - adult |
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Black-crowned Night Heron - juvenile |
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Great Cormorant |
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Great Cormorant |
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Great Cormorant |
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Great Cormorant |
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Great Egret |
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Great Egret |
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Little Egret |
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Little Egret |
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Little Egret |