{"id":109913,"date":"2023-01-30T03:37:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=109913"},"modified":"2023-09-08T02:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T08:42:44","slug":"fluffy-butt-pied-billed-grebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/01\/30\/fluffy-butt-pied-billed-grebe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluffy Butt Pied-billed Grebe"},"content":{"rendered":"

What bird is cuter than a fluffy butt Pied-billed Grebe? There are probably quite a few birds as cute but this one taken four years ago tickled my fancy today.<\/p>\n

\"FluffyFluffy butt Pied-billed Grebe \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The Pied-billed Grebe was preening as it floated on the cold water of a neighborhood pond in between catching crawdads to eat. Pied-billed Grebes can be found in Utah year round. As long as there is open water at my neighborhood ponds these small grebes will hang around all winter long.<\/p>\n

Typically the Pied-billed Grebes will leave my local ponds during the breeding season because they don’t provide suitable nesting habitat. I’ve photographed Pied-billed Grebes in flight<\/span><\/a> at my local pond which is unusual since they usually only fly at night.<\/p>\n

One thing that I always notice about Pied-billed Grebes<\/span><\/a> is that they have cute, little fluffy butts. This photo shows that well and makes me laugh.<\/p>\n

We could all use more smiles and laughter.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Pied-billed Grebe photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What bird is cuter than a fluffy butt Pied-billed Grebe? There are probably quite a few birds as cute but this one taken four years ago tickled my fancy today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,135,709,26],"tags":[4004,12335,3035,877,707,4009,4166,1984,4019,8018,3996,373],"class_list":["post-109913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-pied-billed-grebes","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-butt","tag-fluffy","tag-grebe","tag-grebes-2","tag-pied-billed-grebe","tag-podilymbus-podiceps","tag-pond","tag-preening-2","tag-urban","tag-water","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t