Great crested grebe feeding oversize fish. Today I went to Stover Country Park, in Devon, where I knew a pair of Great Crested Grebes had chicks (3). I got there around 9am and was lucky enough to have captured some nice material (IMHO) over a couple of hours, until the resident male mute swan had a testosterone surge and tried to kill them. The parents put up a tremendous fight stabbing the swan with their pointed beaks and squawking at it to draw it away from their hidden chicks and diving when the swan got near. I suppose the assault lasted for 5 minutes but seemed a lot longer. Thankfully they were all OK, but they remained very elusive afterwards. These are three of my efforts.
