This cracking black-necked grebe was off the car park at Pennington Flash today. It's a juvenile, probably from the Woolston colony and is a year tick for me.
Love those feet!
Possibly even better than the grebe was this family (in flight) of adult and two juvenile great black-backed gulls. Though these occur in double figure counts at the flash in winter, summer birds are very scarce, and I'm pretty sure that I've never seen juveniles at the flash in July previously.
On the water at least 150 lesser black-backs of which about two thirds are juveniles and the rest adults.
Juvenile great black-backed gull.
It doesn't matter how grumpy and unreasonable the offspring are the parents don't hold a grudge and always keep coming back with food and unconditional love. Except in this instance the juvenile didn't get it's way, the adult decided that enough was enough and ate the fish itself. We've all got our breaking points. Perhaps next time the juvenile will say "please" and "thank you". Two of eight common terns at Pennington Flash today. Also today, two common sandpipers and two Egyptian geese.
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