Slavonian Grebe at dawn

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Posted by Peter Cairns on July 22, 2008 at 2:53 PM

A rare perfect dawn a few weeks ago. Only around 50 pairs of Slavonian Grebes breed in Scotland and most of those on one loch near Inverness. This was a local off-duty bird fishing a pool near home.

Canon 1dsMII, 300mm, ISO200.

Peter Cairns
www.northshots.com

Posted by Craig Churchill on July 22, 2008 at 3:24 PM

A wonderful atmospheric shot,compliments your swan and RTDiver shots perfectly!!
Oh to have a small lochan and such wildlife down here!!!!

Craig

www.craigchurchill.co.uk

Posted by Graeme Lee on July 22, 2008 at 4:45 PM

Very nice Peter. Great atmosphere captured

Posted by John Robinson on July 22, 2008 at 5:32 PM

That's a nice poster if I ever saw one.
I don't do dawns as much as I used to !!

JohnR

Posted by Gavin Law on July 22, 2008 at 6:06 PM

Lovely atmospheric mood to that one Peter, like it.

Gavin

Posted by David Kjaer on July 22, 2008 at 6:22 PM

Well worth getting out of bed for!

David

Posted by Jeremy on July 22, 2008 at 7:14 PM

I don`t do dawns, either; only dusks! Wonderfully atmospheric shot, and well worth getting up early for. Would clone out that white speck in the water, just to the left of the grebe, and parallel to the reflection of the head.

Posted by Matt Cole on July 23, 2008 at 7:50 AM

lovely composition and very atmospheric.

Matt

Posted by Paul Gibbs on July 23, 2008 at 11:22 AM

Very nice love the look and feel of the image.

Posted by Nick on July 23, 2008 at 12:57 PM

Very atmospheric shot Pete.

You might want to straighten the image up a touch - a degree or so CW rotation puts the reflection back in line and brings the 'horizon' into line too.

Posted by Magnus Hird on July 24, 2008 at 2:12 PM

Beautiful atmospheric shot - the mist is something else! Definitely one I can see on walls. Agree about the CW rotation