When all the cormorants had been scared away from the peir the first one to returne looked especially lonely where it stood in the falling snow.
The slavonian grebes kept their distance to my even though the pond were they were breeding was quit crowded with three pairs in a small space. Waiting on the edge of one of the pairs territory proved to be a wise strategy as they passed pretty close on their way to ward off intruders.
A horned grebe an photographed an hour after sunrise.
