Great Crested Grebes with young

[BDennis]

These Grebes were fun to watch with the young ones climbing on their backs. I grabbed some video clips hoping to go back for better morning or evening light but weather and a rare social commitment got in the way so I composed what I got with some stills into this short video. It is good that these grebes had young again this year - I watched and photographed them last year but never thought to take much video and it was going to be a project for this year but something got in the way to prevent me visiting so often!

[wornish]

Excellent production Bill. The whole thing comes together really well.
The final still right at the end is superb.

[MJ224]

That was a lovely video..:-))

[Olybirder]

A delightful video Bill. Really nice work.

Ron

[BDennis]

Thanks for the comments. The story with the photo at the end was that the adult grebe was turfing a coot off of a nest. I had seen the coot building the nest earlier and was pretty sure it was not where the grebes originally nested. I suppose grebes would defend a decent nest site instinctively and especially as it had young and would see the coot as a threat. The coot held on for a bit then decided it wasn’t up for a fight and sloped off as shown in this photo - I would have done the same!


Great Crested Grebe by Bill Dennis, on Flickr

[Barr1e]

Enjoyable - thanks.
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[Luv2shoot]

Outstanding production. I enjoyed immensely .

[elmtrees]

With a serious interest in birds for over 60 years I can honestly say, quite the best photographic images of the species I've seen and well deserving of the praise given on this forum.

N.

[BDennis]

With a serious interest in birds for over 60 years I can honestly say, quite the best photographic images of the species I've seen and well deserving of the praise given on this forum.

N.

Thank you for your kind comment, I am glad you liked the photos. I have been very pleased with what is possible with these Olympus cameras - there is a lot of very good bird photography I have seen myself from others to inspire us all - and increasingly more with the Olympus OMD system. That is a good number of years of bird watching, I hope there will be many more!