Red-Eye

It's fascinating to see the behaviour of coots change dramatically once the breeding season starts. Throughout the winter they quite happily flock together. Now there's "handbags at dawn", which sometimes does lead to injury. We've seen quite a few with injured feet over the last week or so.

Tis was one of 3 birds who were just jousting with their wing feathers raised. To me it looks like they're holding their petticoats high.