Mother and child great crested grebes on the Wharf – there had been two young ones but the other was killed by a gull when it fell from its mother’s back, witnessed by a friend of mine one lunchtime
On a recent walk beside the Wharf (former East Bute Dock) in Cardiff Bay I saw two pairs of great crested grebes (Podiceps cristatus). Until then I had thought only one pair lived there. Here are a couple of scenes from their daily life.
Father grebe approaching with a silver fish he has just caught
Passing over the fish
The grebe family together
A second grebe couple
Male with shiny green weed as a gift for the nest
Adding the weed to the pile and tidying it up
Grebes aren’t the only birds with young around…
Young coots (Fulica atra)
Young gull – by its pink legs I think it’s a herring gull (Larus argentatus)
The Squirrelbasket 
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