This afternoon at Fort Ebey I noticed along with some more regular behavior, a group of at least thirty grebes in a dense group moving together along a single trajectory, as well as making synchronized dives together. At the time I identified them as horned grebes, although I've not seen horned grebes behave that way before. The only discussion I can find about gregarious behavior like that with grebes pertains to eared grebes. The flock was almost beyond the range of my scope, past the far edge of the kelp beds, so what I had thought could be horned grebes could certainly be something else. Searching recent eBird checklists for that location shows that eared grebes are relatively unreported. I'd love to know if someone else has a good idea about what we may have seen today.
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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2022 13:18:19 -0800
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From: Tom and Carol Stoner <tcstonefam at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Tweeters] Dead Pine Siskins
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My neighbor with the bird buffet found 6 dead pine siskins on her deck.
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Five of the birds were in one protected corner, the other in a second
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protected spot. She's bagged the birds and put them in her garbage, but she
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wonders if she needs to take her feeders down in case the deaths were the
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results of disease rather than weather.
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Any suggestions?
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Carol Stoner
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West Seattle
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