Christine's walking & birds blog

Eight Slavonian grebes were hanging around together, way out on Little Loch Broom. They were in a line, with two briefly facing one another in a vertical position - though whether this was fighting or courting, I don't know. Gradually they broke up and a few of them came closer, diving frequently.


However, one grebe suddenly launched itself across the surface of the water and caught a sand eel, which presumably had been swimming in the shallows.



Earlier, we had seen three Slavonian grebes on Loch Ewe as we walked round Inverewe garden - where a singing goldcrest was one of few woodland birds in evidence.