Amazing Wildlife 🦆

I live near Lindow Common and since lockdown started, I have been going to see the wildlife there everyday. It is filled with baby chicks. So far, I have seen Moorhens and their chicks, Coots and their chicks, and Great Crested Grebes and their babies. I have also seen Mallards and their ducklings even one American black duck that looks like a half-male and half-female Mallard! I used to see a Mandarin Duck, but I haven't for a while. Today, I have seen a Grey Heron! It was very still and kept drinking in the Black Lake and then it flew off. As well as this, I have seen little toadlets; there are loads of them but they are really small so people accidentally keep stepping on them! Previously, I had seen all the frogspawn so it was really nice to see the babies. Interestingly, I also saw a large wolf spider, but it was carrying a white thing on it’s back and I think that it was an egg but I can’t tell. There are two adult Moorhens that I have seen so far and they are generally nice to the chicks, but they peck them and chase them off sometimes. I saw the chicks getting pecked twice today! These chicks are starting to get proper feathers now! Amazingly, Mallards let the bird chicks go really near to them and never attack them! The Coots (there are also only two of them!) also pecked their chicks, but did it when the chicks were really small, so it looked like she was trying to kill them. It looked awful. These babies are starting to get really big, like the Moorhens, and are starting to get the white beak! The Great Crested Grebe babies look like a zebra on their little faces! They go underwater for a really long time, and so do the Coots! It looks cool when the babies go underwater as well! They go really fast when the parent has gone underwater and has brought back a fish. I have also seen the Great Crested Grebes’ mating dance on a video; it’s amazing how they stick out their feathers! The ducklings are really playful, and always jump about! There used to be about fifteen, but I think some of them have died, and now there are only three. One of them is really adventurous, and always is on it’s own! The grey heron was in the reeds at first, and then it flew towards the middle of the lake and it stayed still and just drank water. Then, unexpectedly, it just flew off!

Check this out!!!!

Great Crested Grebe Mating Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hoL93tEkrM