{"id":58033,"date":"2018-04-06T06:09:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=58033"},"modified":"2018-04-06T06:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:22:42","slug":"back-brooding-clarks-grebe-with-a-chick-about-to-abandon-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/06\/back-brooding-clarks-grebe-with-a-chick-about-to-abandon-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Back-brooding Clark’s Grebe With A Chick About To Abandon Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"

With their eyes completely surrounded by white and\u00a0an orange bill I think Clark’s Grebes have a slightly more elegant appearance than the nearly identical Western Grebe. But I love\u00a0spending time with\u00a0both species, especially when they’re back brooding chicks.<\/p>\n

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I photographed this back-brooding adult Clark’s Grebe\u00a0at Bear River MBR\u00a0on June 16, 2016. The youngster was beside itself with excitement because it spotted its other parent approaching with a small fish and that little tyke was hungry<\/em>! I thought it might jump right into the drink but in the end it restrained itself and stayed on board.<\/p>\n

I don’t remember if it\u00a0got breakfast or not because this little guy had\u00a0competition. If you look carefully you’ll see the top of the head of a sibling mostly buried\u00a0between the wings of the adult. Immediately after this shot was taken the second chick popped its\u00a0head up to see what all the\u00a0excitement was about and either sibling could have received the fish (or either adult could have eaten it – I didn’t save images that could have confirmed what actually happened). Whatever the\u00a0outcome I like the photo as presented a lot.<\/p>\n

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However, the image as presented isn’t quite what I saw through my viewfinder. The instant I snapped the shutter the out-of-focus wingtip of another bird in flight (species unknown) poked down into the top of the frame and I found its presence\u00a0extremely distracting so I cloned it out (seduced by the clone tool again…).<\/p>\n

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So in the interest of full disclosure here’s the unaltered image. I think it’s the wingtip of another bird in flight but it might also be part of the reflection of a bird on the water, I’m just not sure. Either way I found it annoying as hell\u00a0which is why I’d never posted this photo before (although I have posted several similar\u00a0shots of\u00a0these birds).<\/p>\n

Sometimes I\u00a0(almost)\u00a0wish Adobe engineers had never dreamed up the clone tool…<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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With their eyes completely surrounded by white and an orange bill I think Clark’s Grebes have a slightly more elegant appearance than the nearly identical Western Grebe. But I love spending time with both species, especially when they’re back brooding chicks.<\/p>\n

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