A family party of four black-winged stilts(an adult & 3 juveniles), made for an interesting diversion on my way home from Wales and were particularly interesting being British bred birds from Potteric Carr near Doncaster. I can only remember about 5 breeding attempts by stilts in the UK in the past 40 years, and they usually fail, either the nest gets flooded or predated, so it was particularly pleasing to see three juveniles almost fully grown, though sadly one of the adults has gone, apparently taken by a peregrine.
I can't say that they were a particularly close knit family, they didn't
really associate much with each other, in fact I had no opportunity to get
more than one bird in a photo at any one time. They seemed to stick to
opposite ends of the pool.
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