Whitmoregirl's Wombles

Click randomly to drop food pellets, and click the centre of the wheel to get him running!

.. 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.