Duck!

I had one of those days where I really couldn’t be bothered to do anything as the sky was grey and threatening to rain at any time, but I eventually forced myself to revisit the Southchurch Park lake at lunchtime. I’m glad I did as I enjoy it there, watching the males birds get all feisty with each other as hormones run wild. The coots are especially funny as the dominant males torpedo towards the underlings if they dare enter the water. I’ll go back and photograph them sometime soon. Predictably I hadn’t been there long when the first drops of rain fell and not long after I was back in the car on my home. Not much of a day really.

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