Hi Folks,
I've been doing some scouting for the upcoming Oregon Birding Association
field trips.
It is interesting to me that a couple weeks ago I watched a large young
Pied-billed Grebe (black and white striped head) being fed by a parent at
Ford's Pond. Now, for the past week or so, there are grebes on nests "out
in the open" at Ford's Pond. If you scan the surface vegetation on Ford's
Pond and see a Pied-billed Grebe here and there, seemingly sitting on the
vegetation; well, they probably are. Today I watched a swimming Pied-billed
Grebe deliver a mouthful of vegetative material to one of the grebes on a
nest. The grebe on the nest took the material and stuffed it here and there
around her(?).
Good Grebeing,
Matt
