Black ice and Bananabills

Look for long-staying Yellow-billed Loons when roads are covered with ice. Today one was well-twitched at Grevelingen, in the same conditions as the previous twitchable which was as long ago as winter 1995-'96. The time that public transport was actually public transport, although the busses did not leave the garages on that day. I do not remember exactly how we got from the railstation to the Reeuwijkse Plassen but is was a combination of taxi, walking and sliding. The impressive bird showed really close sometimes and we could enjoy it's diving behaviour, slowly submerging like a submarine.

From the archives; December 1995 Reeuwijk (Nikon F801, Novoflex 600mm, Kodachrome64 and cheap slide-scanner).