Grebe Nesting Drive

[Brian Bailey]

Cycling through Col Sam Smith Park this evening, there were a pair of Red-necked Grebes hanging out in a small patch of open water east of the docks.  One was carrying a stick in its beak! Hopefully that's just courting behaviour, and they're not actually going to try building a nest on the ice.

I didn't hang around to watch.  


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[Dinusaur]

Yes, I also saw the same thing last year at the same location around this time - it is great fun to watch. At the end there were a couple of actual nests with one for sure had several babies that many lined up to photograph.

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[Howieh]

Slightly off topic but are the snowy owl(s) still there? The weather for Sunday is looking great and I hope to get there during the afternoon.

[Brian Bailey]

I don't think so.  I saw one multiple times there the last weekend of March.  No eBird reports in the past week.  Sounds like there are a lot of Snowies on the move.  


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