Bird of the Year 2020: Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)

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Re: Bird of the Year 2020: Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)

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June 3

8:05 I think a little bit of fight / out of view.
a Duck comes to close and is chased away by the Grebe.
The Grebe first dives underwater and then chases the Duck.

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Time jumps an hour further
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18:44 change, it looks like the third egg is a bit deeper in the nest
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edit: wrong fleur...wrong.
There are two eggs !! :mrgreen:
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20:05 change. there is rivalry between the chicks. Oldest rights?
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21:00 change.
It seems the next chick will come out of the egg

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June 4

5:50 Both parents have a little one on the back


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8:01 change
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20:12 big Fish. In the end three chickens :loveshower:
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20:40 The eggshell is removed
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Fleur wrote: June 4th, 2020, 9:53 pm 20:12 big Fish. In the end three chickens :loveshower:
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thanks for the video fleur :thumbs:

they are so sweet at the end when they all clamber up on the parent's back :loveshower:
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June 5


23:42 Grebe left the nest and has not returned all night.


Sorry. at 4:25 a Grebe on the nest
5:32 Grebe from nest with one little. The other Grebe is near.
5:33 Both swimming away.


I hear beeping. From the egg? :puzzled:
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7:47 Grebe back on nest
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:hi:
11.28am - loaded up with the chicks, the parent left the nest and has not been back since (now it's 13.14 pm). the last egg has been left behind - perhaps it wasn't viable... I wonder if that's the end of what we will see :puzzled:
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10:29 Parent in the water has two chicks on the back. Parent on the nest has 1 chick
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10:47 Parent away from the nest and back again
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11:26 parent with 1 chick swims away from the nest
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18:53 Great Reed Warbler
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1.39 am the couple - i think... perhaps just one grebe? - came to the nest. one settled on the nest.

EDIT: could this be a different couple? yes! a pair of ducks :mrgreen:

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02.32 both on the nest
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with a bit more light i can see they are a pair of ducks
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