Good birding at Prospect Reservoir - Sydney, NSW - 13th November 2005

[Penny Brockman <>]

Dear all

Regarding Edwin Vella's comment on the shyness of nesting Gt. Crested 
Grebes, they can become very habituated to humans. In Hampstead Heath 
park, London, on a series of ponds, there were always one pair per pond, 
and one paid was nesting in a corner of their pond within 2 metres of a 
path in constant use. The park keepers had erected a fence to protect 
the birds from dogs and when I saw it, the female was calmly sitting 
paying no attention to people stopping to look at her. This was when I 
was in London for a year in 1990-91.

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