One place where a large flock of Western Grebe can still usually be found is in the middle of Lake Washington between Magnuson Park and Kirkland. Typical numbers vary in the low hundreds; 400 birds is not unheard of in the winter. Scope required to verify, however.

Scott Ramos
Seattle



> On Jan 27, 2021, at 8:04 PM, Comcast <kristinstewart01 at comcast.net> wrote:

>

> Totally agree, Brad. Used to live on Budd Inlet in Olympia, and had huge rafts of several hundreds! Hard to count as they were diving in the front and then popping up in the back of the flock endlessly. Glorious!

>

> Kristin Stewart

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> Sent from my iPad

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>> On Jan 27, 2021, at 7:18 PM, BRAD Liljequist <bradliljequist at msn.com> wrote:

>>

>> 

>> Makes me sad that nowadays a large group of Western Grebes is 50. It does not seem long ago that we had that splendid huge couple thousand bird raft off Shilshole/Discovery Park all winter. Ya don't know what ya got til it's gone...

>>

>> Brad Liljequist

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