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grebe at Falls Lake



I had a chance to go to Rolling View Tuesday afternoon (11/13) to look for 
the Western Grebe.  I was there for a solid hour.  No sign of it.  I saw a 
group of five Horned Grebes well to the east of Sandling Beach.  I also saw a 
lone grebe just to the right of Sandling Beach, where somebody reported the 
Western.  I did my best to wish it into a Western, but it was smaller than 
the nearby Ring-billed Gulls, the back of the neck had a rusty tint, the neck 
wasn't long enough, and when it stretched, it revealed its white secondaries. 
 Therefore Horned.
       I did see two Pied-billeds and a Bonaparte's Gull and heard but didn't 
see a loon back in the inlet to the left of Sandling Beach.  Maybe that's 
where the Western was.

Erik Thomas
barbarahunter919@aol.com
Johnston Co., NC/NCSU