Wild Life
25-04-08p1270972grebebeak-1.jpgLots of people send me photgographs but usually of holidays, children and so on. These are very welcome but if I kept them all on my hard disk they might use up my picture capacity very soon.
So imagine my delight when Jane Bain sent me this picture of a Great Crested Grebe (in my ignorance I might have called it a large duck), She and Hugh , I know, photograph every day and keep a daily record and are keen observers of riparian life along their stretch of the Thames. The GCG has just caught a large fish which, apparently, it managed to swallow then paused to digest; hope it didn’t have too much of a tummyache. Photo by Jane above. Click on the link to see the full size photo.
27/04/2008 at 09:43 pm
Thank you Tom. It’s very kind of you to include this photo in your blog. But beware, photographers are a bit like fishermen and can bore you for hours with their latest ‘catch’. On the subject of ‘the one that got a away’, if you are not very careful I will send you a picture of a heron holding the flounder it had caught which was so large it could hardly lift it. After many attempts, the heron had to concede defeat and recognise that the dimensions of the flounder were totally incompatible with the dimensions of its throat. Thank goodness we don’t have to eat like that!