[cobirds] Re: Grebe ID

Tony Leukering has a fine article on how molt timing can help us ID Horned/Eared grebes at this time of year:

http://cobirds.org/CFO/ColoradoBirds/InTheScope/26.pdf

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 9:25:35 AM UTC-6, David Waltman wrote:

A few days ago I saw several Horned Grebes at Boulder Reservoir.   I also viewed one or two confusing birds that I reported as Horned/Eared Grebe.  Kenn Kaufman's Facebook page notes that at this time of the year as birds have begun to molt out of winter plumage "it can be tougher to ID things like Eared Grebes vs Horned Grebes."  He goes on to say that Shakespeare understood this.  Kaufman says "That's why, in Shakespeare's play 'Julius Caesar,' a soothsayer utters the famous line: 'Beware the ID's of March!'"

I "liked" that.

David Waltman

Boulder

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