More Metz…

As I mentioned yesterday, we’re traveling again today, so I won’t have much time to go looking for new wildlife, and let me show you a little more of what I saw yesterday here along the river in Metz, just in case.

There’s a low spillway right in front of our hotel, where I showed you the goslings yesterday, and it was popular with all kinds of birds. Here’s a darling grey wagtail who had been foraging there with her partner.

Meanwhile, here’s a Eurasian kestrel that was hunting overhead. They seem a little more comfortable with the “built environment” than their American counterparts, in my experience.

Back at the spillway, another bird that enjoyed foraging on it was this common moorhen, which I read is just the European version of the common gallinule we just saw in Nicaragua.

The most likely reason the robin I showed you yesterday was posing so nicely for us is that he was busy singing, and here he is mid-chorus.

Now that I’ve delved into second looks, here’s the grey heron before it spotted that fish at the side of the river.

This is not the same blue tit as yesterday, and that’s mostly because they were all too busy foraging to sit still for more than a second.

Finally, since we’re not going to see goslings in Estabrook for a while, here’s one more look at the Egyptian goose goslings on that spillway. In fact, the river is up a bit since yesterday, perhaps due to all the rain we’ve been enjoying, so the spillway is little more than a ripple in the river, and I doubt I’ll even get a glimpse of goslings today.