1.06.2010

Uncooperative Grebe

Late this afternoon, down by the bridge, a pied-billed grebe was teasing me. It would swim close when I didn't have my camera and then when I'd get my camera, it swam just out of range. Now you know that little bird was doing it on purpose, don't you? ;)

The least blurry of all my blurry shots...
 

A lot of the shots ended up being of ripples on the water as the grebe dived...
 
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But, as you can tell from this shot, the little sucker was hard to see when it did pop up!
 
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Oh well, I had fun watching it and that's all that really matters.

5 comments:

KaHolly said...

I do believe it WAS toying with you! Can you just imagine what IT was thinking throughout this encounter?

R.Powers said...

I firmly believe there are no cooperative grebes.

They do the same thing to me.

jason said...

I had to laugh. That second photo represents the majority of my pied-billed grebe pictures. As FC said, they're not particularly cooperative.

Holly said...

Those encounters are so exasperating, but for some strange reason they give me respect for the elusive bird, whatever variety it may be. Sometimes it seems like they have a sense of humor and are chuckling at my frustration!

swamp4me said...

KaHolly,
I'm sure it was getting a good laugh out of the whole thing!

FC,
I know. You just don't expect such behavior in something so small and cute.

jason,
If I had had time earlier in the day I think I may have managed to get a decent shot -- but work had other plans for me.

woodswalker,
I probably should have just switched my camera to video to avoid the frustration that this little cutie caused. I can still hear it chuckling at me... ;)