Great crested grebes feature quite often on here but I couldn’t resist yet another grebe photo. I was watching this young bird successfully fishing for small fish when it stopped to scratch an itch. Great crested grebes spend most of their lives in the water, so we don’t get to see their feet very often. Grebe legs and feet are well adapted to their aquatic environment, with legs placed well back on their bodies and, as you can see, the lobes of their feet wide and flat to help propel them quickly through the water.