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Monday, 16 July 2012

New species for my UK life list

Black Necked Grebe:

Not a particularly difficult species to find, but this one has been hanging around the fringes of my UK list for a few years ..... on more than a few occasions I had reminded myself that "I must pop over to Warrington" well I never did, until Sunday, when I decided it was about time.

Once I had parked up it took me less than a minute to locate them, 5 adults and 3 juveniles. Unfortunatly the light was either non existant or way too harsh, and with the birds being distant in the large expanse of water this was about the best image I was going to get.

Juvenile Black Necked Grebe
(at Houghton Green Flash 15th July 2012)


the adults are a very smart bird .....

so they will have to wait for another day to get onto my website
Still a great hours birding seeing a lovely species for the first time, and of course the thrill of upping the list by one more

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5 comments:

  1. Unknown16 July 2012 at 21:09

    Nice capture. The young guys are so hard to catch up to!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.

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  2. Jill16 July 2012 at 21:10

    Lovely capture. The reflection is splendid!

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  3. theconstantwalker16 July 2012 at 21:19

    Far better than I would call a "record shot" Dave.

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  4. Grandma Barb's This and That17 July 2012 at 03:59

    Much better than I could do.

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  5. Stewart M18 July 2012 at 12:10

    Hi there - nice bird to add to your list.

    I thought I’d let you know that I stepped into the void caused by Springmans decision to close down World Bird Wednesday by setting up Wild Bird Wednesday (!).
    Feel free to visit and link.

    Stewart M

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