Any parent who's ever had a child threatened knows the feeling! I agree.
Great photo. Thanks Jen and also Chris.
Denise
on 21/1/11 10:34 AM, Chris Sanderson at wrote:
> 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-par
> k/
>
> 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; ³that is one agro bird!²
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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