Spotted Crakes taking food from anglers
On 26th September 1972, at a gravel pit in Somerset, I was standing near an angler when from time to time I saw a Spotted Crake Porzana porzana emerge from a narrow belt of reeds behind him and start pecking around near him. The angler tossed the bird a few worms which it picked up before returning to shelter. Once it walked to his side and took worms fro
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