Posted for Fred Fallon
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Changing kaleidoscope of grebes at Piscataway Park
Tied down by clean-up chores, I was unable to check out the grebes seen
from Piscataway Park until y'day pm. Arriving ~ 1400, I met 2 groups of
birders leaving - they had seen nothing but a Pied-billed. Among the
~200 each Baldpates and Gadwalls, and a few Ring-necks, there were at
first 2 Pied-billed Grebes but neither Horned nor Eared. But after while
a new grebe showed up - its downward-sloping rear end immediately
precluded Eared, but it proved to be not a Horned but a Red-necked
emerging from its harlequin imm plumage. After ~ 20 min's I lost sight
of it and never saw it again. Also present was a single somewhat out of
place f. Hooded Merganser.
Now this AM, I found neither Red-necked nor Eared, but a conventionally
winter-plumaged Horned Grebe. The 2 Pied-billdes remained. Also present
was a f. Red-thr Merganser; no trace of the f. Hooded.
Fred Fallon
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