Aechmophorus clarkii

Weed Ceremony

These big grebes are famous for their courtship dances. Recently I was able to film the early stages, “Light Necking”

With only a handful of scaup remaining from the Spring migration, the most numerous flock on the North Basin in

These big grebes sometimes seem like graceful feathered monkeys in the way that they imitate one another. They can take

Paddling all the time can give you that cramped feeling. Nothing feels better than to have a long stretch. This

The chill northerly gale roughed up the North Basin and gave its population of migrant Bufflehead, scaup, grebes, gulls, and

When I started in the park at 2:30 in the afternoon yesterday, the only visible creatures on the North Basin

As if to compete for attention with the “Classic Western” I photographed on June 5, this Clark’s Grebe paddled slowly

More than 75 big grebes gathered in the North Basin for several days, most of them the Clark’s variety. A

I had my camera set up and focused on something else landside, when I heard a weird rasping noise on

The Pied-billed Grebe is said to have the power to submerge itself partially, moving like a submarine with just its

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