I've visited the pond again today.
The sun isn't rising yet, but the young wagtails are already flying around my hide hunting for insects.
A bit later the first sunbeams enlighten them beautifully:
Young White Wagtail
Young White Wagtail
Young White Wagtail
Young White Wagtail
Ducks aren't coming, lapwings neither ... or do they? A lapwing is approaching in the thick vegetation, but something else is also there! I notice two largish chicks, one of them just coming out from the undergrowth:
Young Lapwing
They make their way towards the water. After having spent some time there, they return. For my greatest pleasure they come close to my hide:
Young Lapwing
This chick must have been on a muddy place having bits of mud hanging from its plumage:
Young Lapwing
The other one appears too, but it's not as dirty as its sibling:
Young Lapwing
Then they disappear in the undergrowth.
Meanwhile a little ringed plover spends a few moments in front of me:
Little Ringed Plover
This parent follows its chicken attentively in the vegetation:
Lapwing
Later a roe deer appears on the quiet walking to the water where she drinks, ...:
European Roe Deer
... then turns back ...:
European Roe Deer
... to return into the underbush. The wind direction is good, she hasn't notice me. This is the first time I've taken photos of a roe deer from my hide.
A young white wagtail is preening a while in front of me before it flies away, ...:
Young White Wagtail
... then a moorhen is having a good bath near the hide, however the lights falling upon it are too ugly for a good shot. So I leave the hide soon.
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