Nature's Secret Larder - Freedom

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Freedom
11th April 2009

I was called the other day about releasing a water rail Rallus aquaticus back in to the wild. I happened to know just the place, the correct habitat and with an existing population of water rail.
 
The poor thing was found in a dustbin in Camden, London. How on earth he got there I don’t know, and dread to think.
 
Water rails are elusive birds found in reed beds, but rarely seen. They resemble moorhens, only they are smaller. It has chestnut-brown and black upperparts, grey face and under-parts and black-and-white barred flanks, and a long red bill.

As you can see I tried to capture a picture, but failed miserably with a blurry shot. It was gone it a shot, so I didn’t get a second chance.

Freedom

Catch you on the trail

Kris


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