Great Crested Grebes

Building A Nest? - f/5.6 | 1/800 sec | ISO 800

Courting - f/5.6 | 1/800 sec | ISO 800

A while back I went to London with a friend to see the Sebastiao Salgado exhibition at The Natural History Museum and Travel Photographer of the Year at the Royal Geographical Society! Both were really interesting to see, I particularly enjoyed Salgado's work capturing isolated places untouched by the modern world. After we had finished at the exhibitions we were waiting at Canary Wharf before we were to go home, and I spotted this pair of Grebes which made excellent subjects in the evening sunlight. We watched them for quite a while and they appeared to be attempting to build a nest on a rope that was there holding a temporary bridge in place - not a good idea obviously! They were diving down and gathering all kinds of material including a police -do not cross- line! My dad walks past them every day but apparently they gave up a moved on to another location which is probably for the best!