{"id":5578,"date":"2012-05-14T06:17:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=5578"},"modified":"2012-09-02T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T22:15:31","slug":"grebe-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/grebe-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Grebe Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"

These aren’t great images technically but I thought\u00a0they documented a fascinating phenomenon well enough.<\/p>\n

Yesterday there were thousands of these grebes at the first bridge along the Antelope Island causeway.\u00a0 They were actively feeding at the current boundary where the water coming under the bridge met the still water in the north arm of the Great Salt Lake so they were bunched up in\u00a0incredibly thick masses.\u00a0 Several species of gulls were\u00a0also present.<\/p>\n

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Each time a gull would pass over the grebes, those directly underneath the\u00a0gulls\u00a0would panic and dive into the very shallow water in front of the gull which would create\u00a0quite the stir in the water.\u00a0 Those grebes just a few inches to either side didn’t react which created a dramatic visual phenomenon as the frothy splash moved in front of and directly\u00a0beneath the gull.<\/p>\n

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Those times the gulls flew along the length of the mass of grebes the “splash” would travel exactly the same speed as the gull for perhaps 75 yards.\u00a0 This was one of the few times when shooting birds that\u00a0I wish I’d practiced more with the video capabilities of my Canon 7D.\u00a0 That would be a video that I’d like to see many times as it was quite the spectacle to watch.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These aren’t great images technically but I thought\u00a0they documented a fascinating phenomenon well enough. Yesterday there were thousands of these grebes at the first bridge along the Antelope Island causeway.\u00a0 They were actively feeding at the current boundary where the water coming under the bridge met the still water in the north arm of the Great Salt Lake so they were bunched up in\u00a0incredibly thick masses.\u00a0 Several species of gulls were\u00a0also present.   Each time a gull would pass over the grebes, those directly underneath the\u00a0gulls\u00a0would panic and dive into the very shallow water in front of the gull which would create\u00a0quite the stir in the water.\u00a0 Those grebes just a few inches to either side didn’t react which created a dramatic visual phenomenon as the frothy splash moved in front of and directly\u00a0beneath the gull.     Those times the gulls flew along the length of the mass of grebes the “splash” would travel exactly the same speed as the gull for perhaps 75 yards.\u00a0 This was one of the few times when shooting birds that\u00a0I wish I’d practiced more with the video capabilities of my Canon 7D.\u00a0 That would be a video that I’d like to see many times as it was quite the spectacle to watch. Ron<\/p>\n

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