[EBB Sightings] Horned Grebe Eats Pipefish, Arrowhead Marsh

The cream of Courtenay Peddle's GGAS tour of Arrowhead Marsh this 
morning was the sight of a grebe devouring an eel-like fish almost its 
own length. When I first saw the bird, it had the fish by the middle - 
like a bit of black rope whipping around at both ends. How it managed to 
turn the thing business end down I do not know, but eventually it all 
went in.

After the group returned to the parking lot, I went back out and sat at 
the end of the boardwalk as the ebbing tide flowed past me, adding 
Cinnamon Teal, Green-Winged Teal, Godwits, assorted peeps, and half a 
dozen Clapper Rails doing the chicken-walk to the day's total. Near-low 
tide at the marsh has a lot of charm; it takes more patience to see the 
rails, but they're going about their business happily and not in 
distress when you see them....


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