Great Crested Grebe with Jack Pike

Great Crested Grebe’s are one of my favourite wildlife subjects because of the range of interesting behaviour they exhibit. Usually I see them catching Roach which are sometimes so large I’m amazed they can manage to swallow them. On this occasion I saw it dive at the margins of the lake and emerge with a Jack Pike. After numerous attempts to manoeuvre it into position to swallow it gave up and abandoned its catch.