My next show, "WAVES and WAKES", is scheduled to run from Sat 12th April until Sat 10th May at the Katharine House Gallery, in The Parade, MARLBOROUGH, Wiltshire, SN8 1NE. For further information, ring The Gallery, which is open Tue-Sat, on 01672-514040.

A Grebe Fishing at Abingdon

Size: 0.92m x 0.61m  Medium: Oils on canvas  

Sep 2008  Exhibited: 30 

On a breezy Spring morning, I watched this Great Crested Grebe fishing just downstream of Abingdon Bridge. Its technique was to swim upstream, darting to and fro as if exercising (See No 268), before standing up in the water (as seen here, with the Old Gaol reflecting in the background) with its back to the wind and current, before plunging beneath the water surface diving for fish. Some seconds later it woudl re-appear again downstream, at a distance further away from the bridge.