Hi all,
We have put Jen's fantastic experience with the Grebes and Coots up on
Bird-O:
http://bird-o.com/2011/01/21/right-royal-%E2%80%9Cset-to%E2%80%9D-in-royal-park/
Jen that photo is amazing!
Regards,
Chris Sanderson
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:46 PM, jenny spry <> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>
>
> With the first afternoon of sunshine in a while I drove to the storm water
> basin in Royal Park, Melbourne, just near home. I had seen a family of
> Australasian Grebe there and wanted some photos of their tiger-striped
> chicks. The Grebe were still there and also a family of Coot, also just
> itching to have their photos taken.
>
>
>
> The two families drifted around with their young, slowly coming closer
> together, and I imagined the chance of a photo of both families
> harmoniously
> feeding young in the warm afternoon sun. Suddenly though, one of the coot
> started screaming and paddling frantically backwards, spray going
> everywhere. Huge fish I thought, or perhaps an enormous eel no, obviously,
> a
> crocodile someone had dropped down a local sewer (I've read about that
> happening!).
>
>
> What it actually was though was an irate adult Grebe that had felt its
> chicks were threatened. It had dived and come up under the coot and it not
> only attacked, but chased the panicked coot from under water for some 10
> metres or more before surfacing and attacking again, from behind and above.
> As a friend said when she saw the image; “that is one agro bird!”
>
>
>
> I will put the image on the BOCA site tonight but right now I need to go
> back out in the sun with a cup of tea.
>
>
>
> Cheers all
>
>
> Jen
>
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