Photo-a-Day  (Monday, 28th February, 2011)

A sign of spring at last

At last a Spring photo...beautiful, thanks Phil.

Ah, yes, have to agree,

Spring has sprung,
The grass has ris,
I wonder where the birdies is,
Some say the bird is on the wing,
But that's absurd,
'Cos the wing is on the flippin' bird.

Great photo, nice sharp eye..!!

It's been a long winter. Nice to see signs of things to come, I hope.

Now, that's better a spring Photo, Thank you Phil. I feel much better myself now.

Good photo Phil but where on Three Sisters is this nest? Currently there ate no coot nests recorded on yesterdays (Sunday 27th) survey. Checked again tonight an dno sign of a nest. Coots normally start to breed from mid March. The photo looks like one of last years nests.

Honk said

Good photo Phil but where on Three Sisters is this nest? Currently there ate no coot nests recorded on yesterdays (Sunday 27th) survey. Checked again tonight an dno sign of a nest. Coots normally start to breed from mid March. The photo looks like one of last years nests.


So it might not be spring after all.

I did indeed take this shot last year. I will need to go on my other computer to get the exact date. If i remember correctly it was at the opposite side of the lake from the car park.

This might be last year's photo but it still reminds us that spring is just round the corner. The birds have started to sing as well, another sign of things to come, or am I just an optimist? By the way are coots really daft???

Hi Phil, your memory serves you well that’s where this nest was located, sorry to have questioned you on this one. The Rangers and Friends of Three Sisters carry out weekly bird surveys on Three Sisters and record all nests around the lake including weekly counts on the number of (webs) water fowl/swans etc.

Apologies for the typing errors in my original post.

John that’s a good question because they do seem to be sometimes and yet when you see them nest building they quite industrious using a collection of material to help bind the nest. They are also alert, noisy and quarrelsome.

The official date of Spring this year is the 27th of March. Phil last year's photo????? I thought this was up-to-date, hence photo-a-day. Come on get out there and click those cameras....well done Honk for pointing this out.

Sorry if i have entered a photo that technically does not qualify. I was not aware that the shot should represent something taken that day.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Poor Phil!!
Does it really matter when a picture is taken,if they are good to look at .Why are some people so picky ???

Not being picky Jean, just constructive. As I said the photo is good but unfortunately it’s too early in the season for the coot to be sitting eggs. If you view the photos in the Photo-a-Day library you will see that (with the exception of inanimate objects) the photos are current to the time of year. The posters who send their photos for this section expect the viewer’s to be critics with comments which are good, indifferent and sometimes uncalled for but never the less constructive

Well it March and I saw three Coots nesting at Worthington lake yesterday