Horned Grebe

Hi Everyone, just saw something amazing (April 14) on the Dexter Line across the road from the house that had the albino cardinal. Steve said he saw something in the ditch. We turned around and there was this little bird flopping around, apparently injured. We watched it for a few minutes then it got spooked and started moving, in an injured way, along the ditch and into the field. By the time I thought of my camera it was too late, but we had such a great look at it for about five minutes. Finally I tried to get out of the truck to approach it (for a picture) and it flew away! Flies like a duck! It may have been hit by a vehicle shortly before we got there. But when it flew away it seemed to be back to its old self. It landed in a wooded area behind the house on the east side to the north. Anyway it was definately a Horned Grebe! We were within three feet of it for part of the time. What an amazingly strange and beautiful creature. A new one for me!

Diane