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Great Crested Grebe with fish

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Posted by Richard Peters on April 12, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Great Crested Grebe with fish
I have a couple in the series with another with the Grebes head back and just the tail sticking out his mouth and a big lump in his throat. I'm not up on my fish so thought someone could I.D. it for me from this photo?

Odd lighting as the sun had cleared from the clouds behind me lighting the Grebe up but the water was still reflecting cloudy skies directly overhead.

D300 with 600mm
Posted by Craig Churchill on April 12, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Great shot Richard and from the stripes down its flank it looks like a perch.


Craig
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Posted by Craig Jones on April 12, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Nice image richard, love how the sun has lit the eye/face great detail and it is a baby perch, well done and good luck in mull :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Brett Lewis on April 12, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Nice shot Richard, Good low POV and excellent detail.

Brett :toast:
Posted by Greg Hitchcock on April 12, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Nice shot, some behaviour shown and aesthetically pleasing as well! I like the contrast of warm and cool tones.

Greg
Posted by Dave Courtenay on April 12, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Most of the images i have of grebes with fish are Perch-nice image-like the way the bird is low in the water

Dave :toast:
Posted by Dawn Monrose on April 13, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Great shot, great details and behaviour.