American Coot Feeding Chick
Today’s #NotesFromTheRiver post is up! Hope you’ll stop by and read about coots, both young and old. Thanks for checking t out, and passing it along. Happy reading!
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That is so cute, Marcia!
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I really enjoy coots, though I confess, I’ve never seen a young one before. I don’t think they spend long enough here to breed, before they head back north. Guess I should double check that. Oh. I just realized, I forgot to include a range map with the post. That would show where they breed. Ha. I should edit it tomorrow. Too tired tonight! 🙂
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There’s always something else we could do. We need to know when enough is enough. I hope you rested well.
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I always get my first hint when my forehead slams into the keyboard. The resounding CLUNK lets me know it’s bedtime. 😀
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I know that feeling, but it doesn’t usually occur when I’m working for myself. 🙂
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Twelve hours of pounding the computer keys, with only a couple of very short breaks for lunch and other . . . necessities . . . will bring me right to the edge of Clunktime most days of the week. GAH. I’d slow down to a normal workday, but that clock in my head is ticking LOUDLY and reminding me that “like sands through the hourglass, so go the Days of Our Lives,” to quote the opening of an ancient soap opera. (Believe me, it’s getting really sandy around here.) 😀
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It’s very sandy here too. I want an extended lifetime. There’s too much to do in this one!
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I’ve already figured I’ll have to live to be 138 just to get through all the books in my TBR pile. And that’s assuming I don’t keep adding more every day! 😯 😀
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If only adding to that pile would give us more time. I guess every time we read we get a chance to live another life. 🙂
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Loved it and shared it with the mister! I feel so “informed” now! 😀
Of course, now the mister wants to SEE coots…and I don’t see that happening. We live in Arizona! LOL!
😉
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I’m about to issue a correction on the coot post, Felicia, along with a range map. I’m going to post it here, too, since so many of you do read the #NotesFromTheRiverBlog. It should have been included yesterday, and I regret I forgot it. Especially since, as you will see, you have PLENTY of coots in Arizona, any time you’d like to check them out. 😀 And now, you will know a bit more about what you are seeing. 😀 Thanks so much for sharing the post, and I’m very glad you enjoyed it. Stay tuned for the correction! 😀
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Lovely photo, Marcia.x
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So glad you like it, Judith. And thanks for stopping by to read the entire post! 😀
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Beautiful and touching. Thanks, Marcia!
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Thanks so much, Olga. Glad you enjoyed it. I’m about to post an addition, which I’ll include here for those who’ve already read the post on the St. Johns River Tours blog. 😀
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Great post, informative and entertaining as always. Love the photos, especially of the chicks and the one of take off!
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I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Mary. Honestly, when an entire raft of 2,000 birds takes off running like that, it’s a sight to behold. And it’s LOUD, too! 😀 Stay tuned for a correction, though. Ooops.
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I’m getting such an education from you on wildlife Marcia. And the photos are always spectacular 🙂
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Thanks, Deb! This series on ducks and duck-like waterfowl is fun. I still have a few more to go, and have saved my favorite for last. 😀
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Brilliant Marsh. 🙂
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I do so love your wildlife posts – so many really different species to ours in the UK, and such wonderful photos – oh, and your humour too – you crack me up!
I did have to go look up one of our native species after reading your coot post – we have a very similar bird called a moorhen. And I was right! The moorhen is also a member of the rail family.
I have been educated.
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So glad you are enjoying these, Deb. Wish I’d gotten one done this week, but between the leaks in the roof and tearing up our living room/dining room floors, I’ve been a bit tied up. Not to mention, I’m halfway through editing The Emissary. Life sometimes conspires against me to keep me from my blogs! 😦
The moorhen is related to the coot, but even more closely related to our common gallinule. In fact, a few years ago, all the ornithologists who were running out of things to do decided to rename our gallinules “moorhens” to be consistent with yours. Recently, they changed them back to gallinules again. (There’s a picture in this post of a gallinule and coot together.)
If any ornithologists are reading this, don’t strike me about the head and shoulders. I’m sure you guys have a lot to do, but the constant lumping together of species, then turning around and UN-lumping them can really get confusing. I’m wondering if it’s a ploy to sell more field guides? 😀 😀 😀
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Lol, you may have hit on the truth of it!
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