in a recent Harpers magazine article the author suggested that grebes
can't walk on land and that those westerns found stranded above high tide
are really just in need of a lift back to the water where they can get a
running start at flight. Since I have occasionally seen these birds and
passed sadly by, assuming they were sick, I would like to know if the
author is more right than wrong. Thanks

Judith Noble
bc468 at scn.org