As you saw from my previous post, yesterday morning was quite bleak with low clouds. The sun came out in the afternoon though, and it makes all the difference, so I drove out to check the cranes and red-throated divers.
I found where the cranes have their nest. I also found that they have a guest, I took a picture of the crane foraging for food when I spotted a smaller bird in the frame… I think it’s a common greenshank (Tringa nebularia). That’s the closest match I could find anyway.
The red-throated loons have not started nesting yet. For a moment I thought that the bird was returning to the nest to incubate when it hopped on land, but then it was closely followed by the other diver, and … well, let’s just say that they are preparing to start incubating soon… 😉
Crane with a guestOn the other side of the lakeNesting (that blue thing in the background is ice)The diver coupleIt kept dipping its head in the water, leaving a drop of water in the beakThis is where I thought it (the female, as it turned out) was going to incubateBut the other bird (the male) followed right behind and they are definitely not incubating!Bird porn 😀The male went back to the water immediately after the act and started grooming itselfThe female followed after a moment, groomed itself for a short while and then started sleepingThe male spent at least three times more time on preening and just when I thought my legs were dead for grouching down awkwardly, it finally spread its wingsThe male joined the female after this, and also started sleeping. I was finally able to stand up and get the blood circulation going in my legs!
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