Once you begin to set aside scraps for the “girls,” you may be surprised by just how much food was going to waste. There was also a limpkin trying to feed 2 little babies. often see around 50+ moorhens scattered along the field, and around 30+ coots, but they tend to stay around the waters edge. Sparrows and other finches. Most of what you eat will also appeal to the chicken palate, including meat scraps (although I can’t quite bring myself to feed leftover chicken to my chickens—it just seems so wrong). Other critters at the lake. Coots feed on small fish, worms and the tender parts of aquatic vegetation. It looks like those baby moorhens were sitting on cotton in the first picture but that is some kind of algae growing in the lake.
both coots and moorhens are intereting birds to watch and great for the kids, as you can get quite close views. Where they are used to people being around they can become very tame. A few of the other birds on my walk. The eggs number from 5-7 with the latter being more the norm, but as many as 12 may be encountered. Very young chicks are fed on a mixture of freshly chopped maggots, wax moth larvae and mealworms; these can be mixed into a mush with a few drops of water if more rehydration is necessary for the chicks. A study of the Moorhens North American counterpart and considered to be the same species until 2011, the Common Gallinule has revealed that newly hatched chicks have barbs in their wing feathers that help them climb vegetation in order to feed, avoid predators and roost. Join the community here A yellowlegs, a parrot eating something high in a tree and an anhinga with a snack.
Offer in plastic tweezers or on the top of a coffee stirrer at ½ hourly intervals. Several things, actually, as pigeons are not picky and could be counted as one of the several species of Nature’s trash cans. Photograph by Dal. This can be found in the section on Swift feeding guidlines. Nest and eggs of the coot. Below- the white frontal shield is evident. i still take time out from other birds to watch the moorhens and coots in my area, they can be pretty numerous on the fields near to ponds on my patch. Show off your images, experiences and read the RSPB’s blogs! Share your passion for birds, wildlife & all things nature with the RSPB Community.
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