{"id":8857,"date":"2013-07-12T03:45:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T09:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=8857"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:24:47","slug":"western-grebe-at-bear-river-national-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/07\/12\/western-grebe-at-bear-river-national-wildlife-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Grebe at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WesternWestern Grebe at Bear River MBR<\/span><\/p>\n

The other day when I photographed the Black-crowned Night Heron<\/a><\/span> at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge I also photographed some Clark’s and Western Grebes, I found these two images of this Western Grebe interesting and wanted to post them.<\/p>\n

This is a classical pose for a Western Grebe photograph, it shows the long elegant neck, the sharp bill and those maraschino cherry red eyes. I wish the light had been a touch better but there were some clouds overhead that prevented the best light from occurring.<\/p>\n

\"AdultAdult Western Grebe head on<\/span><\/p>\n

Now this pose with a head on look… well I find it humorous! It isn’t often that I get to take Western Grebe images with the face head on. I just had to share.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

The other day when I photographed the Black-crowned Night Heron at Bear River National Wildlife Refuge I also photographed some Clark’s and Western Grebes, I found these two images of this Western Grebe interesting and wanted to post them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150605,"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":[124,27,1148,26,161],"tags":[4004,699,877,707,5023,4094,2315,3996,4014,4095],"class_list":["post-8857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-utah","category-western-grebes","tag-adult","tag-aechmophorus-occidentalis","tag-grebe","tag-grebes-2","tag-head-on","tag-marsh","tag-summer-3","tag-water","tag-western-grebe","tag-wetlands"],"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