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grebe at Falls Lake
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: grebe at Falls Lake
- From: Barbarahunter919@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:52:15 EST
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
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