GREAT CRESTED GREBE

Almost as soon as Great Crested Grebes start to grow the facial plumes of their breeding plumage, they can be seen doing their famous courtship ‘dances’. The male and female mimic each other’s movements while facing each other in the water, with little mock preens and head shakes and even simultaneous diving, perhaps to come up with weed and a bit of weed- or penguin-dancing.