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Great Crested Grebe

Great Crested Grebe (Image ID 24890)
Photographed byTim Van Leeuwen on Sun 26th Mar, 2017 and uploaded on Tue 4th Apr, 2017 .
Resolution1400x933
Viewed246
ID24890
CommentWhilst photographing these Great Crested Grebes I noticed on 3 occasions the Adult Grebe take a floating feather and present it to the Chick. On each occasion the chick took and ate the feather which surprised me. Perhaps someone of superior knowledge might let me know if this is typical bird or Grebe behaviour.
EquipmentCanon 5D Mark iv
Canon 200-400 f4
iso 800 - 1/1250 - f7.1 - 560mm - manual exposure - hand held with monopod
Initially processed in Canon DPP 4 to crop, adjust exposure and lighting and perform noise reduction on bird. A 16 bit TIFF file was created from the RAW DPP image and finished in PSE (Adobe Photoshop Elements CC) where the background was noise reduced and the main subject sharpened.
LocationLake Wendouree - Ballarat, Victoria
Keywordsjuvenile, adult
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