{"id":17965,"date":"2014-12-21T18:29:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T01:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=17965"},"modified":"2025-10-28T06:14:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:14:35","slug":"pied-billed-grebe-and-still-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/12\/21\/pied-billed-grebe-and-still-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Pied-billed Grebe And Still Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Typically by this time of the year the water at Farmington Bay WMA is frozen over but this year it wasn’t when I photographed this Pied-billed Grebe 4 days ago.<\/p>\n

\"Pied-billedPied-billed Grebe and still water – Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 640, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
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As much as I adore wild, swirly reflections as shown in this Pied-billed Grebe<\/a><\/span> image has I also enjoy the reflections of calm, still water because they show more details, less shape distortion, and have a mirror-like quality.<\/p>\n

There are still quite a few Pied-billed Grebes at Farmington Bay WMA but the Clark’s and Western Grebes have gone. I still see a few Eared Grebes at Farmington Bay and along the causeway to Antelope Island.<\/p>\n

The Pied-billed Grebes<\/span><\/a> will stick around as long as there is open water which may be all winter long here given how odd our weather has been.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

Click 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":"

Typically by this time of the year the water at Farmington Bay WMA is frozen over but this year it wasn’t when I photographed this Pied-billed Grebe 4 days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[27,1022,697,135,26],"tags":[4004,877,707,4094,4009,4166,812,4095,373],"class_list":["post-17965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-pied-billed-grebes","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-grebe","tag-grebes-2","tag-marsh","tag-pied-billed-grebe","tag-podilymbus-podiceps","tag-still-water","tag-wetlands","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