Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) (30/03/2009) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (garden). Easy to ID as nothing quite like them. We get this one particular one in the garden - no others, just the one. It has discovered the pond and the ground feeder! Males and females pretty much identical.
Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) (30/03/2009) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (garden).
Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) (30/03/2009) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (garden). A regular visitor here to the ground feeder.
Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) (20/05/2005) Arundel Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre.
Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) (11/03/2006) Arundel Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre. These two were having quite a fight.
Moorhen Juvenile (Gallinula chloropus) (20/05/2005) Arundel Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre. A fluffy baby. The babies have red bills and are black.
Moorhen baby (Gallinula chloropus) (24/07/2005) Little Wantley, Storrington (parents' place on the lake). Another cute baby.
Moorhen Juvenile (Gallinula chloropus) (20/05/2005) Arundel Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre. As they age, they become browner and start losing the redness to their beak.
Moorhen Juvenile (Gallinula chloropus) (13/07/2005) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning. Then they become like this - really confusing as not at all like the adults.
Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) (11/08/2006) Arundel Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre. You'd never know this would turn into an adult Moorhen as the plumage - and bill - are so different from the babies, and also from the adults.
Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) (11/08/2006) Arundel Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre.
