{"id":118211,"date":"2023-11-13T04:23:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T11:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=118211"},"modified":"2023-11-13T04:36:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T11:36:56","slug":"young-pied-billed-grebe-in-late-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/11\/13\/young-pied-billed-grebe-in-late-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Pied-billed Grebe In Late November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through photos that I took last year when I found this image of a young Pied-billed Grebe, taken at my local pond at the tail end of November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-118208 size-full\" title=\"Young Pied-billed Grebe at a local pond\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-immature-november-mia-mcpherson-4528.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-immature-november-mia-mcpherson-4528.jpg\" alt=\"Young Pied-billed Grebe at a local pond, Salt Lake County, Utah\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20900%20643%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-immature-november-mia-mcpherson-4528-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-immature-november-mia-mcpherson-4528-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-immature-november-mia-mcpherson-4528-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-immature-november-mia-mcpherson-4528-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-immature-november-mia-mcpherson-4528-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-immature-november-mia-mcpherson-4528-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-immature-november-mia-mcpherson-4528-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-immature-november-mia-mcpherson-4528.jpg 900w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Young Pied-billed Grebe at a local pond \u2013 Nikon D500, f11, 1\/500, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is just a little unusual to see a young Pied-Billed Grebe that late in the year in northern Utah. The facial pattern is typical of a hatch-year Pied-billed Grebe. I only took a few photos of this young grebe, so something or someone must have caused it to swim off to a spot where I couldn&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n<p>First, I recall that I wasn&#8217;t concerned about this young grebe because I knew it didn&#8217;t hatch in this pond. Grebes build floating nests, and I&#8217;ve never seen grebes nesting at my local pond.<\/p>\n<p>Second, since this young grebe didn&#8217;t hatch at the pond, I knew that it could already fly; it didn&#8217;t walk to this pond. The grebe couldn&#8217;t have walked to this pond. The legs of grebes are placed so far back on their bodies that it is hard for them to walk any distance at all.<\/p>\n<p>I remember that I wasn&#8217;t concerned that the immature grebe would be stuck if the pond froze over because it could fly.<\/p>\n<p>This November, I am seeing quite a few <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pied-billed_grebe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pied-billed Grebes<\/span><\/a> at my local pond, but none are as young as the grebe was in the photo above.<\/p>\n<p>I will be able to enjoy photographing the grebes at my local pond as long as it doesn&#8217;t freeze over completely this winter. I&#8217;m actually looking forward to snowy scenes and photographing winter birds at the pond.<\/p>\n<p>Life <em>is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/pied-billed-grebe-images\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Pied-billed Grebe photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through photos that I took last year when I found this image of a young Pied-billed Grebe, taken at my local pond at the tail end of November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,135,709,26],"tags":[970,4620,877,707,4067,10698,4009,4166,1984,958,8018,3996,5123,4193],"class_list":["post-118211","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-autumn","tag-fall","tag-grebe","tag-grebes-2","tag-immature","tag-park","tag-pied-billed-grebe","tag-podilymbus-podiceps","tag-pond","tag-reflections","tag-urban","tag-water","tag-waterbirds","tag-young"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-immature-november-mia-mcpherson-4528.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-uKD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":118683,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/12\/02\/immature-pied-billed-grebe-being-chased-and-other-grebe-behaviors\/","url_meta":{"origin":118211,"position":0},"title":"Immature Pied-billed Grebe Being Chased And Other Grebe Behaviors","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"December 2, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, I photographed an immature Pied-billed Grebe being chased by an adult at my local pond. 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There are probably quite a few birds as cute but this one taken four years ago tickled my fancy today.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Birds&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Birds","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/avian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fluffy butt Pied-billed Grebe, Salt Lake County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-fluffy-butt-mia-mcpherson-0181.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-fluffy-butt-mia-mcpherson-0181.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-fluffy-butt-mia-mcpherson-0181.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-fluffy-butt-mia-mcpherson-0181.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":116150,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/09\/20\/late-summer-baby-pied-billed-grebes\/","url_meta":{"origin":118211,"position":3},"title":"Late Summer Baby Pied-billed Grebes","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"September 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"On my most recent trip to Bear River MBR, I had a huge thrill. I found four baby Pied-billed Grebes still in their striped juvenile plumage in the marsh.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/locations\/utah\/bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Four baby Pied-billed Grebes in late summer, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pied-billed-grebe-babies-mia-mcpherson-0852.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pied-billed-grebe-babies-mia-mcpherson-0852.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pied-billed-grebe-babies-mia-mcpherson-0852.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pied-billed-grebe-babies-mia-mcpherson-0852.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":121411,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/02\/18\/pied-billed-grebe-breeding-and-nonbreeding-plumage-comparison\/","url_meta":{"origin":118211,"position":4},"title":"Pied-billed Grebe &#8211; Breeding And Nonbreeding Plumage Comparison","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"February 18, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, I took a photo of a Pied-billed Grebe in breeding plumage at my local pond. 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