There will be great flocks of Wild Geese coming down from the North, and they often rest on the mill pond; or a Loon may chance down the river, and a Grebe or two.
Our familiar Pied-billed Grebe or Dabchick disappears so suddenly, that 'Water Witch' is one of its common names.
The Red-necked Grebe and the Black-chinned Grebe also bred in the loch.
In this improvised ship, and upon this humid bed, the female Grebe silently sits upon and hatches her progeny.
Among the European species may be noticed the Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus), Fig.
The nest of theGrebe is usually placed in a tuft of rushes, on the edge of the water.
The Crested Grebe is found along our coasts, and in their estuaries, in limited numbers; but in the splendid lakes of the North American fur-countries, according to Dr.
Duck, ornamented with a double black crest; the Horned Grebe (P.
Again, the head of the great or crested grebe passes, while that of the little grebe sticks.
The Great Crested Grebe is identical with the British bird, for it is found all through the Eastern Hemisphere.
Eared Grebe being the only species of this family found in the same localities during the summer.
In regard to size this Grebe comes next to the Western, being 19 in.
The Least Grebe is by far the smallest of the Grebes in this country, being but 10 in.
This Grebe cannot be mistaken for any other because of the long slender neck and the long pointed bill, which has a slight upward turn.
The American Eared Grebe belongs to the order of Diving Birds (Podicipedes) and the family of Grebes (Podicipidae).
The food of the Grebe consists of fish to a great extent, which are dexterously caught while swimming under water.
The American Eared Grebe has an extensive range, including that part of North America west of the Mississippi Valley and from the Great Slave Lake south to Guatemala.
The Western Grebe is the largest American species, being from two to two and one-half feet in length.
The Horned Grebeand the Eared Grebe are common in America.
The Sclavonian Grebe is a regular and rather numerous autumn and winter visitor to all the Islands.
The Red-necked Grebe is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey.
The Little Grebe is included in Professor Ansted's list, and marked by him as occurring in Guernsey only.
The Great-crested Grebe is a regular autumn and winter visitant to the Channel Islands, but not, I think, in quite such numbers as at Teignmouth and Exmouth and along the south coast of Devon.
The Eared Grebe is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey.
I have never seen a Channel Island specimen of the Red-necked Grebe in full breeding-plumage as I have the Sclavonian, but it is a tolerably regular autumn and winter visitant, and in some years appears to be the more numerous of the two.
The Sclavonian Grebe is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey.
The conformation of the greyhound is not better adapted for fleet running than that of the Grebe for rapid diving.
In winter it resembles the last named Grebe in plumage, excepting that it is white on the primaries.
The plumage of this little grebe varies according to the time of year.
This little grebecomes of a splendid line of ancestors, some of which were even more specialised for an aquatic life.
Alert and wary, thegrebe paddles slowly along, watchful of every movement.
Millions of years ago there lived birds built on the general grebe plan and who doubtless were derived from the same original stock, but which lived in the great seas of that time.
I fired at the distance of thirty yards; my gun went quick as lightning, but the grebe went quicker, and scrambling over, out of sight, came up again in a few seconds perfectly unhurt.
A summary word or two, first, respecting the Grebe family, will be useful.
The breeding habits of these two species are identical; they differ very considerably in size, but there is not so great a disparity between little grebe and great grebe as there is between the cuckoo and its foster-parent.
A very few years ago it would have been a wild thing to say that the little grebe was a suitable bird for London, and if some wise ornithologist had prophesied its advent how we should all have laughed at him!
True, it may have been fighting between the two males, for dabchicks, like the great crested grebe and other water-birds, probably fight by diving and attacking each other beneath the surface.
The great crested grebe exhibits the same feature of variety in his manner of diving as does his sprightly little relative the dabchick.
Great-Crested Grebe Attacked by Another Under Water.
To judge by the two birds which I particularly watched, the great crested grebe has the habit of building several nests, and, besides this, the male makes a small platform of weeds just off the edge of the bank, and near to the nest.
The first of these is that attractive and delightful little creature, the dabchick or little grebe (Podiceps fluviatilis), a bird whose society I have always cultivated to the best of my ability.
In the grebe family, too, the two customs obtain, but whether they are combined in any one species of it, I cannot with certainty say.
The young of the great crested grebe are striped like this, also.
The worms of the grebe were spirally coiled amongst the muscles and tendons near the lower end of the tibia, and when unrolled measured about an inch in length.
Down to the bottom it went again, and again hurled itself up against the ice, this time shattering it and rising to the surface, where the grebe was quick to follow.
The grebe seemed to be in distress for want of air.
The grebe itself could doubtless have broken the ice had it desired to.
One winter day on which the pool was frozen over, except a small opening in one end of it, the grebe dived under the ice and made its way to the far end of the pool, where it remained swimming about aimlessly for some moments.
Now it looked as if the loon had gone under the ice to rescue its friend from a dangerous situation, for had not the grebe soon found the air, it must have perished, and persons who witnessed the incident interpreted it in this way.
In Bronx Park in New York a grebe and a loon lived together in an inclosure in which was a large pool of water.
She managed to grip one of his feet, as they trailed behind him while he dived, but the grebe escaped, leaving in the assailant's mouth only a morsel of flesh torn from a claw.
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