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It鈥檚 not exactly what Bill Oddie would call peaceful here at the moment and yet he can shut all the noise of people and dogs out and watch the great crested grebes. That鈥檚 lovely and they haven鈥檛 lost their libido. You can hear them calling even over the noise of that 707 coming in. And this is amazing, one of the grebes is handing over a large piece of plastic as a love gift. Grebes are in the habit of giving presents to one another as part of the mating ritual and it鈥檚 usually a piece of nesting material. But this one has found what appears to be a plastic bag. Well now the other one鈥檚 got the right idea- it鈥檚 a twig. And they鈥檝e swapped them over. That鈥檚 fantastic.

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