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Well despite spending most of the day down on the Somerset Levels yesterday, I didn't get the species I was after.....As a consolation though, we did come across a pair of Great Crested Grebes dancing and mating, which was kinda cool as up to yesterday, all I've ever recorded was single specimens of these very beautiful birds. However, they were very much in the distance and the weather was very cloudy, so I had to use ISO800 and a 1.4 tele-converter on the 500mm lens to get these images. This mean't using manual focus so if the images seem a little soft and noisy, that's why. Still thought them worth posting all the same though, version 4 shows the actual mating taking place in amongst the reed bed, something that's over in a matter of seconds and although it's not very clear with reeds obscuring the act somewhat, it was still something I've never seen before and felt privileged to have witnessed it first hand.
Many thanks BTW the way to Bri Curtis and Matt Berry's User Awards on my Little Jewel image and to Pete for the Highly Commended award, cheers guys!
Hope you all enjoy this little series of reportage images, thanks for stopping by, I'm hoping to have some free time this afternoon to catch up on what everyone's been doing.........Ade
| Brand: | Canon |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 50D |
| Lens: | Sigma EX DG APO HSM 50-500mm plus Sigma x1.4 converter |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 12 Mar 2012 - 1:14 PM |
| Focal Length: | 700mm |
| Aperture: | f/8.0 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/320sec |
| Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
| ISO: | 800 |
| Metering Mode: | Evaluative |
| Flash: | Off, Did not fire |
| Title: | Dancing Grebes |
| Username: | 
Ade_Osman |
| Uploaded: | 13 Mar 2012 - 8:10 AM |
| Tags: | Avies, Birds, General, Great crested grebes, Sports / action, Wildlife / nature |
| Votes: | 76 |
 | Variant - Report |
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) Envious.
Excellent set, lovely timing and humour - duck reportage at it's best. v2 is a beauty.
Dave
Good set Ade, I spent most of Sunday afternoon trying for these and all I got was the male and he was asleep with his head tucked under his wing.........lazy beggar 
Congrats on the awards for Little Jewel,
Geoff.
A cracking set of images of this courting couple, it looks like they've spotted you in v2!
V3 has to be my favourite, the courting dance of the grebe is one of the most attractive when it comes to birds
Excellent series of images Ade and perfect timing. Great work 
Heath
A superb series and very sharp.
When i saw the first image i ahd to look closely as it looked like you had done a mirror image in photoshop but after a while i realised these were 2 birds not one.
Ian
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