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Baby Grebes and Little Grebes (1 Viewer)

Neil Grubb

Neil Grubb

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Duddingston Loch, Edinburgh, is host to a family of Great Crested Grebe - the first sighting of the chicks was around Thursday of last week, seen by my brother. We went to see if we could get some photos today. My brother and I were surprised how close in the grebes came to the bank, considering it's a fairly busy public park. This gave a very good photo opportunity. The grebe chicks were buzzing around confidently, often hitching a lift on the adults' backs. A fantastic sight! Also seen were Little Grebe fishing.

Back home I had great views of the local young buzzard, in Roslin Glen. There isn't room to include these but a link to pics of this bird is: http://www.geocities.com/roslin_nature/SPbuzzard.html
 

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Neil,
Great shots of a really interesting family! Last week we saw our first Eared Grebes and they were carrying young on their backs as in your photo. Fantastic.
 
Super photos, do you reckon they're still there? Off work for a couple of days so could pop down there to have a peek.
( Is the white thing in the background in photo 3 a swan feather? )
On the subject of the buzzards, how many youngsters have you got there this year,
do you think?
Bluetit
 
bluetit said:
Super photos, do you reckon they're still there? Off work for a couple of days so could pop down there to have a peek.
( Is the white thing in the background in photo 3 a swan feather? )
On the subject of the buzzards, how many youngsters have you got there this year,
do you think?
Bluetit
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The GCG's have been at Duddingston for a long time. As the chicks are just over a week old they won't be going anywhere fast. Neil and I also saw a kingfisher from Hangman's rock at the east end of the loch (as did others) so this is worth a look too
 
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