Hello, from Bolton

[ghough12]

Hello everyone, I stumbled on this great site whilst researching material on Great Crested Grebes. I've been filming a pair of these magnificent birds from mating and hopefully the hatching of the brood in a few days time. I'm filming in HDTV and the results so far are spectacular (even if I say so myself). The birds (and me) have had to tolerate heavy rain, hailstones and gales over the past 22 days.
The parents have been taking turns to incubate and feed themselves during this period. Can anyone confirm the incubation period for these birds I would like to be there as they hatch.

Look forward to submitting my final video story and some stills of the first days of the young birds as they hitch rides on their parents back to evade predators.

[shei111]

Hello and welcome to the WAB site its nice and friendly on here sheila

[dmclean2]

Hi to you Ghough12,
And a very warm welcome , we shall look forward to your pics of the GCG's and their chicks , Good luck with the filming,
Duncan

[Kayleigh]

Hi and welcome to the site.

[Deer Stalker]

Hi ghough12.

Incubation should be 28 days.

http://www.brackleynorthants-tc.gov....ed%20Grebe.pdf

[deer boy]

Hi Ghough12 a warm welcome from me look forward to your pics & future news.what camera do you have

[ghough12]

Deerboy
I have the sony alpha 100 and alpha 700 cameras with sigma 75-300 APO lenss for stills work, and the sony FX1 HDV camera and VX2100 DV camera for videography. I edit video using canopus edius4. Working in video media also allows me to incorporate my high resolution stills than can be 'rostrum camera effect' so as to create an illusion of a moving image as well as for the usual titles and credit backgrounds.

Thanks to all who have welcomed me into the forum

[big bill]

Hello and welcome to the site

[demicav]

Originally Posted by ghough12

Hello everyone, I stumbled on this great site whilst researching material on Great Crested Grebes. I've been filming a pair of these magnificent birds from mating and hopefully the hatching of the brood in a few days time. I'm filming in HDTV and the results so far are spectacular (even if I say so myself). The birds (and me) have had to tolerate heavy rain, hailstones and gales over the past 22 days.
The parents have been taking turns to incubate and feed themselves during this period. Can anyone confirm the incubation period for these birds I would like to be there as they hatch.

Look forward to submitting my final video story and some stills of the first days of the young birds as they hitch rides on their parents back to evade predators.

Hi and welcome to WAB. Great crested Grebes are great Birds. I'm really looking forward to seeing your pics.

[deer boy]

Nice kit,i have a canon xl2 & 400D but still learning how to use them