This nest is built on a floating platform tethered to the bottom. The platform was put there specifically for grebes for breeding purposes. There are two nesting platforms in the park and they get used every year but apparently have never produced little grebes in the seven or eight years they've been erected. Eggs are laid but are pilfered (likely by gulls) before they can hatch.
Here's a little gallery from last summer taken about a week before the egg was stolen and the nest was abandoned: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2011/07/at-home-with-grebes.html?m=0 As for today's pic, no, that's not a spider on the left but some twigs reflected by the water. Cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> Sent: May 21, 2012 5/21/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: PESO - Nesting by the Yacht Club Interesting scene. Is the nest floating? Is that a spider at the left of frame. I find this fascinating, but wonder if Im missing something. Paul On May 21, 2012, at 9:09 PM, frank theriault wrote: > This redneck grebe's nest is near the Lakeshore Yacht Club. I thought > the reflections of the masts made for an interesting picture: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/05/nesting-by-yacht-club.html > > Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
