Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary

[Pumbaa]

The black heron is beautiful - Great shots, BluTuna

My favourite are the Redknobbed Coot chicks - Not the cutest but in fact very special

Quite a number of Egyptian goslings

[Flutterby]

So many chicks...very cute.

Great in-flight shots.

[BluTuna]

Thanks again Nan, Pumbaa and Flutts.

I still have a few visits to cover. This one was on 18 October.

The cuteness is strong in this one!


Blacksmith Lapwings.



A Redknobbed Coot with two chicks.


One of which was a chancer that got bitten for its troubles.


The Black Heron was doing its thing.


And a pair of Giant Kingfishers made an appearance.



A Blue Crane decided it was bath time.

[ExFmem]

Wonderful pics! The first one's beak looks like an animal head... Do you see it?

[Lisbeth]

Wonderful pics! The first one's beak looks like an animal head... Do you see it?

I do, but must be a new kind of animal with a red nose

The black heron is a beaut

[nan]

the Crane make me think of... someone

love the cute little one
I remark, often, Coot beats one of its babies

[Flutterby]

Love the bathing crane and the cute gosling.

[Pumbaa]

Stunning shots of the swimming black crane and black heron, BluTuna

but also love the gorgeous gosling and the giant kingfisher

[BluTuna]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments.

Time to catch up with some of the backlog for this topic.

Going back to the last day of October....

Pied Kingfisher at the hover.




A Little Egret making a spot landing.




The Black Heron seems to have decided to take up residence at AR.



A rare sight at AR, even though the Blue Cranes have had their wings clipped, one or two of them are able to take to the air on rare occasions. This one took me completely by surprise and I only managed to snap off these two images.

[BluTuna]

Blacksmith Lapwings.



There was a commotion as an Egyptian Goose suddenly grabbed one of the Egyptian Goslings and tried to drown it!



Then Mom came to the rescue and chased the bully away.