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

[Fleur]

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.

[Fleur]

Time jumps an hour further

[Fleur]

18:44 change, it looks like the third egg is a bit deeper in the nest




edit: wrong fleur...wrong.
There are two eggs !!

[Fleur]

20:05 change. there is rivalry between the chicks. Oldest rights?

[Fleur]

21:00 change.
It seems the next chick will come out of the egg

[Fleur]

June 4

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


change

[Fleur]

8:01 change

[Fleur]

20:12 big Fish. In the end three chickens

[Fleur]

20:40 The eggshell is removed

[laranjeiras]

20:12 big Fish. In the end three chickens
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thanks for the video fleur

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

[Fleur]

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?

[Fleur]

7:09

[Fleur]

7:47 Grebe back on nest

[laranjeiras]

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

[Fleur]

10:29 Parent in the water has two chicks on the back. Parent on the nest has 1 chick

[Fleur]

10:47 Parent away from the nest and back again

[Fleur]

11:26 parent with 1 chick swims away from the nest

[Fleur]

18:53 Great Reed Warbler

[laranjeiras]

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



02.32 both on the nest


with a bit more light i can see they are a pair of ducks

[nialiC]

Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)