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Great Crested Grebe weed dance
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West Lothian - Linlithgow Loch Great crested grebes
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair doing the head shaking display before the weed dance, which is the climax of their courting behaviour prior to mating.
05 March 2013
Great Crested Grebe weed dance
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West Lothian - Linlithgow Loch Great crested grebes
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair dive to collect weed, then approach each other to do the weed dance, the climax of their courting behaviour prior to mating.
05 March 2013
Great Crested Grebe weed dance
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West Lothian - Linlithgow Loch Great crested grebes
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair dive to collect weed, then approach each other and rise up to do the weed dance, the climax of their courting behaviour prior to mating.
05 March 2013
Great Crested Grebe weed dance
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West Lothian - Linlithgow Loch Great crested grebes
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair dive to collect weed, then approach each other to do the weed dance, here at its maximum height out of the water, the climax of their courting behaviour prior to mating.
05 March 2013
Great crested grebe pair head shaking
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West Lothian - Linlithgow Loch Great crested grebes
Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair head shaking as part of their courtship display.
01 March 2013
Great crested grebe pair head shaking
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West Lothian - Linlithgow Loch Great crested grebes
Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair head shaking as part of their courtship display
01 March 2013
Great crested grebe pair cat display
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West Lothian - Linlithgow Loch Great crested grebes
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) courtship display - the "ghostly penguin" and the "cat" posture
01 March 2013
Great crested grebe pair head shaking
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West Lothian - Linlithgow Loch Great crested grebes
Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair head shaking as part of their courtship display
01 March 2013
Hen harrier food pass
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Dumfriesshire - Langholm Moor
Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) pair in a food pass. The male brings food to the female, who flips upside down to receive it. A food pass can take place either during courtship, as in this case, or during brooding of the chicks later in the season, when the female is mostly on the nest and the male does much of the hunting.
This image was created by combining many shots taken in rapid succession to form a composite image, which gives an impression of the food pass, in which the male Hen harrier (above), carrying food, catches up with the female, who flips over to receive the prey item he drops for her, often a vole or a Meadow pipit, or sometimes a Red grouse chick.
19 April 2014
Great Crested Grebe weed dance
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West Lothian - Linlithgow Loch Great crested grebes
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair doing the weed dance, the climax of their courting behaviour prior to mating.
