{"id":63145,"date":"2020-01-22T05:56:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=63145"},"modified":"2024-01-21T04:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:24:06","slug":"bathing-adult-pied-billed-grebe-splashing-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2020\/01\/22\/bathing-adult-pied-billed-grebe-splashing-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathing Adult Pied-billed Grebe Splashing Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AdultAdult Pied-billed Grebe bathing and splashing – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1600, ISO 400, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

The clouds moved out and the sun was shining yesterday afternoon so I went down to my local pond to see if there were any birds there that were close enough to photograph. I saw gulls, coots, geese, Mallards, a few Redheads, a few Common Goldeneyes, a couple of Common Mergansers and Pied-billed Grebes.<\/p>\n

I saw a few of the grebes catching crayfish and the California and Ring-billed Gulls diving at them in attempts to steal their prey but most of that happened too far away to take high quality images of the action.<\/p>\n

An adult Pied-billed Grebe swam in close enough to take nice photos of it as it preened its feathers then a little while later it started to bathe.<\/p>\n

The Pied-billed Grebe dunked its head then slapped its wings against the water vigorously which caused the icy water to fly in all directions. I have a long series of this action but there were only a few images where I got a nice view of the grebe’s eyes and caught catch lights, this image was one of those.<\/p>\n

\"AdultAdult Pied-billed Grebe shaking water from its head – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1600, ISO 400, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

After splashing and bathing for about a minute the adult Pied-billed Grebe shook the water off of its head and settled down for a few seconds before the grebe started to bathe again.<\/p>\n

It was worth going down to the pond just for these two frames. I’m sure glad the sun came out.<\/p>\n

Over the past few weeks I have noticed that the Pied-billed Grebes at my local pond are beginning to develop black rings on their bills again which indicates that spring and their breeding season isn’t so very far away now.<\/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":"

The Pied-billed Grebe dunked its head then slapped its wings against the water vigorously which caused the icy water to fly in all directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119974,"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":[4004,5109,4373,4053,877,707,6306,4009,4166,1984,4502,8018,3996,5110,373],"class_list":["post-63145","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-bath","tag-bathing","tag-breeding-plumage","tag-grebe","tag-grebes-2","tag-head","tag-pied-billed-grebe","tag-podilymbus-podiceps","tag-pond","tag-shaking","tag-urban","tag-water","tag-water-droplets","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-bathing-mia-mcpherson-4994.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-gqt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":119982,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/01\/21\/bathing-pied-billed-grebe-photo\/","url_meta":{"origin":63145,"position":0},"title":"Bathing Pied-billed Grebe Photo","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"January 21, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning, I'm sharing a simple bathing Pied-billed Grebe photo that I took four years ago. 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