Feeding Time

[OlyPaul]

Taken at my local Country Park, Greater Crested Grebes feeding chicks.

I did not post this in critique because there are faults with it but though it worth sharing .

[Ian]

Re: Feeding Time

We saw some grebes at the lake in Hatfield Forest and there was one very noisy youngster (Julia thought it was an unusual stripey ducklying ) and a parent that - to be frank - seemed a bit disinterested and in the half an hour we watched didn't feed it once. Maybe the fishing was poor at the time. It's funny to see the adult dive and then maybe 15 seconds later resurface maybe 20 feet away. The youngster seemed very confused!

Ian

[David Morison]

Re: Feeding Time

It's interesting that the fish being fed to the youngster is a perch, as in most cases I've seen of this feeding behaviour it is nearly always a perch. Considering that the perch is a coarse scaled, spiny fish it would seem to me to be the least suitable to push down young gullets. Very nice shot though.

David