With white-faced whistling-ducks

With white-faced whistling-ducks

Claudia tells us that "the nenday parakeets were on the Lizard Path between the curtain ivy and the benches. The place was full of them and we moved at the same time. On the right side I see this nenday parakeet looking into the hole and stopped to watch it since it seemed funny, Then it tore some pieces of bark away. Other fellows got near, drove him away and also looked into the hole. I think they had just found it and were investigating."
Let's add these parakeets nest in holes

From time to time we find one of these coots when enlarging photos

There are lots of individual in the Duck Pond

Changing head feathers

Two black-backed stilts, a gull and several platforms with coypus

Female with a dragonfly

Female with a dragonfly

The colour of the legs leave no doubt

With white-faced whistling-ducks

Nesting in the Duck Pond

Very far. Detected by Julián Quillén Vidóz

Very far. Detected by Milena

With marbled swamp eel Synbranchus marmoratus

I was looking at the Duck Pond, which is really very "busy" and saw how the caracaras worked as a team chasing nenday parakeets on the wing, though the effort was unsuccessful.
But it was much more interesting to observe a caracara on the ground walking very cautiously to get to a place. It was a pool of water inside the pond. In it a coypu moved easily in search for food. The caracara got nearer till the coypu realised how near the bird was, slid out of the water and began to drive the caracara away. I had never seen a coypu run and just as a comment it resembles a rabbit in the way it does, almost hopping. The caracara quickly flaps and flies away. They never came into contact but we can say the coypu threw out the caracara, which flew off.
I photographed the scene when the coypu leaves the water and attacks the caracara. But not the end of the story. Actions precipitated ...

With no records for a while we found several spot-flanked gallinules in the Duck Pond

Unlike other birds which have a curious or passive attitude when facing a glass, the golden-billed saltator does battle with a potential rival

Alfredo was the first to spot the plover this time

The first individuals are beginning to appear

Here only a small group, but I counted 50

Impressive cocoi heron eating a bird. It seems a jacana

Sally saw it in the morning and Sergio photographed it. This is the second record in this year of a coot which previously was very common. Will they be in the Gull Pond and we can't see them?

On Sunday it was spotted as well.

Several females or juveniles feeding