Luxury Living in the Heart of Docklands

[major_clanger]

This afternoon I took a walk down to Crossharbour; I'll be working there for a bit and I wanted to find out how long it takes on foot as an alternative to the DLR. (Twenty-five minutes, in case anyone's interested). As I walked past a floating restaurant on Millwall Inner Dock, I noticed what looked at first like an accumulation of flotsam tangled around one of the mooring lines. Then a coot swum up to it and hopped on. Surely it couldn't be a nest?



But that's what it was; a nest of plastic bags, styrofoam cups, bits of cable and even the odd real twig. And in the middle, an egg.

I boggled, and snapped a few photos with my phone. Resolving to come back later with my proper camera, I walked on, and peered at the other end of the restaurant in case there was a nest there to.

It turned out there were two. Another coot nest, and a pair of crested grebes. As I watched, one of the grebes dived gracefully underwater, snagged a piece of vegetation as it drifted past, and brought it back to add a bit of green to its mostly-synthetic nest.

Comments

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Wow! The adaptability of wildlife never ceases to amaze me.

We had 2 deer cross the road in front of us last night, but sadly the camera wasn't ready.

And in other news, the swan at work is still sitting on 3 eggs - so we're all holding our breath in the business park.

[kake]

Re Crossharbour, if you haven't yet discovered it then you should check out El Faro.