grebe• On deeper water teal, mallard and great crestedgrebesbobbed and cootssquawked and chased each other noisily.• We heard the growling call-note of great crested grebes.• Red-heads dive constantly like grebes, but have conspicuously whitercheeks, and are also much whiter than other small diving ducks.• A little grebepaddled with surprisingspeed through the water.• Moorhens, mallards, grebes and a heron work the murky water for their evening meals.• Among those first to die were cormorants and black-necked grebes.• Seabirds were badly affected, with cormorants and black-necked grebes being among the first to die.• He had an interested audience of mallard, water-hen and the solitarygrebe.