And here are some of the 'Dutch' great crested grebes

Nice bright light Lidy... the colouring's spot on.
Great crested grebes are rapidly becoming the new swans
round here.

Very nice shots with good reflections. On my crt monitor the Grebes- shots I took look terrible but these look good. My Grebes look too dark and they have a horrid yellow cast. Do they look that way on your monitor? I edited the shots on my laptop, which I've read has a bad screen and there they look nice(I only edit my photos on my laptop because my desktop comp is too slow and I want to finish editing as fast as possible). My crt is old and the shots look bad there so I'm not sure which to believe. Please comment on that.

Regards,
Tobio

Thanks Tobio. I just had another look at your pictures - which I like a lot as I said before - and I really can't see a yellow cast. The colours look fine to me and are not too dark either.

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Ok, thanks for checking. My old monitor then is to blame. I need to try calibrate the monitor somehow.

Regards,
Tobio

No 2 is my pick of the three, as the birds are filling the frame. Nice colours, and the focus seems good, down to the beads of water on the back of the first bird.

If anything, perhaps the crop on the right side could be less tight, so as to include the whole foot?

Try this. Takes no more than a minute and is free. It's very simple, but it might do the job. If not, you'll want something more complicated.

http://www.calibrize.com/index.html

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I agree with I-berg that No 2 is best. I am fascinated by the idea of whether animals have facial expressions, and if so, whether they provide a clue to mood or character.

It's clear, at least to me, that dogs have quite obvious facial expressions, and are capable of expressing a number of different moods. In picture No 2, the expressions on the bird's faces (especially the youngster on the right) are priceless.

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THanks for the tip. I'll check it out when I get back home.