Up close and personal...with a RED-NECKED GREBE

Another new experience for me today - photographing this fabulous RED-NECKED GREBE at Farmoor II Reservoir in Oxfordshire. It was catching small Perch at a rate of about 1 every 5 minutes and after some nifty field craftsmenship, I and others managed to lure it close in enough to photograph.....

I took about 260 shots of it but these are a few of my better ones...