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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Irene on September 09, 2012, 10:26:45 PM

Title: Grebe VS Grebe at Col. Sam Smith(not for the faint at heart)
Post by: Irene on September 09, 2012, 10:26:45 PM

So today, a friend and I were discussing how we just missed a green heron at Sam Smith and then we heard crazy splashing in the water, we thought our lovely parental Red-necked Grebe had a big fish..well..not so...
apparently the Pied-bill Grebe got a little too close to the babies (who are much older now and out further into the pond)...The Red-neck grebe grabbed our little pied-bill buddy by the neck and was just thrashing him around under the water...

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8321/7964758326_33c8ce1f0e_b.jpg)

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8305/7964759556_906f05ac50_b.jpg)

oh, in the end the Pied-bill was a little shaken but ok...
Remind me never to piss off any bird!!!

Irene

Title: Re: Grebe VS Grebe at Col. Sam Smith(not for the faint at he
Post by: Molebird on September 10, 2012, 09:44:40 AM

Thanks for those pics Irene.  Great shots.  Glad to hear the parents are on guard - the little ones are exposed to so much danger from above (Red tail hawk), below (Mink), and on water (Pied billed grebe).  Can't wait for the "youths" to grow up.