Totally forgot to talk about that, so the canal where we are now has a pair of grebes that hang out by where we're tied up. I have to say, I've always seen birds, and knew the name of a lot of birds, and we've always had a bird book around, but this trip is turning me into a full fledges (haha) birder. My friend and colleague who I went to China with in January has just gotten into birds, and she told me about an app, Merlin. Brilliant. Today I saw common buzzards, Branr geese, Greylag geese, another one I couldn't recognize, Egyptioan geese with babies, Coots on nests, Moorhens and this pair of Crested Grebes. I was heading down for a nap when the man mentioned that one of the pair had babies on his or her back, they share the dutues and there is no dimorfism, so, hard to tell. I was nearly asleep so didn't look, but when I got up, they were still there!!!! Feeding wee little minnows to the babies!!!! I even saw them switching over, the babies could swim along. Soooo cute.
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