Peter Tonkin and I returned to Stithians southern cut-off yesterday morning looking to capture images of a pair of Little Grebe predating on Palmate Newts as we had seen during last spring.
While the faithful Little Grebes were on show Newts were not on the menu yesterday and had been replaced by an abundance of Three Spine Sticklebacks which the grebes caught in large numbers.
Between bouts of feeding the grebes were relaxed and preening near the bank vegetation and the female was calling and displaying to the male to mate so all was looking well for them,
But the grebes didn't have things all to their own liking as a pair of Cormorant came in to fish for the same prey on several occasions sending the grebes into cover in the shallows perhaps if nothing else other than to avoid being on the much larger Cormorant menu themselves
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