Jul
5
2009
Does anybody..
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.. know what these things are?
Are they young coots? I’ve never seen them looking like this, only as adults and chicks.
Oh and a dozen steps away from them was this young chickalickling of a coot (complete with flame-red feathers) with mum..
Sorry for the blurry & distanced photos, turns out I’m not aquawoman. 
5:49 pm, 8 July 2009
They certainly look like juvenile coots to me – I even found some links on the internet to back my thoughts up! Didn’t realise the chicks had the red feathers (now I do!!).
Anyhoo – a link for you http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_Coot_(Fulica_atra)-_Juvenile_in_Hyderabad,_AP_W_IMG_7586.jpg
Next time get some waders on!!
6:37 pm, 8 July 2009
Oo well done, what a weird transition, from being brown and red, not to mention going partially bald, to 60% grey, then 99% black, it’s like the Benjamin Button of the bird world.