A Pied-billed Grebe paddled into the corner of a pond, the wind rippling his wake.
Some tall reeds worked like a blind for me…
…for a minute.
He popped right back up,
and paddled away.
Pied-billed Grebe
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Minimalist Grebe
A Pied-billed Grebe just floating along.
A bird or turtle beyond the frame caused the water to ripple.
January 15,
Pied-billed Grebe and Reflection
Pied-billed Grebes are mighty cute, always looking a little “baby faced.”
On this morning at the Ding Darling Wildlife Drive the water was still and the light very nice for reflections.
Grebes seem to be in constant motion, quickly reversing direction as they search for prey in the water.
This was one of those days that there was so much bird activity I missed a lot of action, including the fly in and landing of a pair of Grebes.
Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge
January 5,2020
Pied-billed Grebe
Small and chunky, the Pied-billed Grebe always looks like a baby-faced juvenile to me.
Last week several of them were swimming in the rice field canal. Saltbrush seeds from shrubs that lined the bank were drifting over the water.
The lowering late afternoon light and growth on the opposite bank changed the look of the water as I proceeded down the canal.
Further along the Saltbrush seeds looked like sparkly feathers floating on the water. Saltbrush, Baccharis halimifolia, is a woody shrub or small tree in the Asteraceae family, and is also known as Groundsel.
