Simón discovered these four masked ducklings (afterwards we saw a fifth) and their mother (in this photo) among the giant arrowheads. These marsh plants provide an almost hidden environment, which makes it difficult to find the family. This is the first record of masked ducklings on this site.

First breeding record of red-and-white crake in the reserve.

Individual ringed and released by the Rehabilitation Center. Unluckily I could not see the action but fortunately I registered this gallinule and the ring on its left leg when it was around Coipos.

Have you found the family?

First jacana family of the season

On Thursday 29th around 9.40 I observed these spoonbills flying around the Grebe Pond

Preening on an island at the Coypu Pond

With a hook caught on the wing and the bill torn

Detail of the torn bill

On the grass two Picazuro Pigeons with a male Shiny Cowbird and two Eared Doves. On the logs, female Shiny Cowbirds, eared dove, bay-winged cowbird and a yellow-billed Cardinal

With water up to the belly. It normally wades in shallow waters.

The limpkin is ready to eat its favourite dish, the apple snail. Either visually or probing the mud limpkins look for them under the water. During the day snails stay submerged, that is why we do no see them. But we do find their empty shells piled in the "dining-rooms" or the clusters of eggs lying on vertical or bent surfaces, whether stems, walls or even on a bottleneck floating in the water.

Impressive number of ducklings in this family. fourteen, though there could be more. The rosy-billed pochard may lay 16 eggs or more. Many pochards have bred in the reserve, but this is the first time we can see such a number of chicks.

Sitting on the wire the difference in size compared to the brown-chested martin (right) and the colour called our eye. The thrill they could be cliff swallows did not last long. A thorough look destroyed our expectations. They were juvenile white-rumped swallows.

The coscoroba swans of our case study are already grown

Showing the egrets, feathers which grow in the breeding season

At cockspur tree Erithryna crista-galli

This pair of Silver Teal swam past bobbing their heads and pecking at water in a very fluid dialog. With no further actions they moved on. The male is at the back. One clue is the lateral barred design of the flank which is linear, whereas that of the female is scaled. The other one are the bars on the tail, which are finer in the male than in the female.

Female lapping up tree tobacco Nicotiana glauca.

Another one that likes bread

I could not take any photos of the chicks since the parent always got into the Hornero's nest to feed them. However, it spied through the opening before leaving the nest. Almost worn out it took some rest on the watertank fence posts

An interesting moment.....! A parent "teaching the son". During almost two minutes the parent literally chased it out since the juvenile kept following him.

Several young male rosy-billed pochards can be seen in the pond. If one pays attention we'll see they are in different stages to become male adults. The bill is rosier and the head and neck are darker. And this individual has a wounded wing.

There are both white-faced and bare-faced Ibises. Let's revise the rule: legs extending beyond the tail - white-faced ibis and legs not extending beyond the tail - bare-faced ibises

With a rosy-billed pochard on the right

First group since water is back in the pond

Periscope grebe

Before the drought the three coot species were very abundant. The drought wiped them from the reserve. As ponds were filled with water they came back but with ups and downs. This is the first large group we see. Most of them are White-winged Coots but for a couple which seem to be Red-gartered Coots

Adult and juvenile