WWT London: Low Flying Emperor

More confused and conflicted in large.
Extra: Snoozing and Preening & Scared sh*tless

I went back to Barnes to spend some time with the emperor geese... I visited the others, but limited my photography to the geese in the first enclosure, although the otter (and a heron and grey wagtail visiting its pen) distracted me for a bit while the emperors and allies were snoozing. Also got to see the (new) white-fronted geese up close; they're sweet but shy, and seem to get on particularly well with the red-breasted geese.
No-one was getting on with the moorhens: there were two juveniles terrorising the emperor geese and barnacle geese, and their evasive manoeuvres were scaring the red-breasted geese and white-fronted geese... *sigh*

I don't often spend time with the otter(s): only one was out, and it seemed pretty playful, but I was a bit concerned to see stereotypies on display: the otter was pacing very regularly, and running a similar path in a highly ritualised way, and I even managed to catch the regularity in a pair of startlingly similar frames (taken 2 minutes apart: step 1 vs. step 1 and step 2 vs. step 2). There was a heron in the otter enclosure, so that may have been a cause of the anxiety (and so, perhaps, the cause of the stereotypy, if it was indeed a symptom of stress), and the otter eventually chased it off so that was something.

Others are all here (or right from Heron in the shallows).