[EBB Sightings] Cormorants and Grebes - Party Dress at Lake Merritt

Wandered down to Lake Merritt this afternoon to check things out for 
Wednesday's GGAS walk, and found that the Double-crested Cormorants are 
back in business at the same old stand. Not quite so many, as we've lost 
a couple of trees, but the ones with space are as keen as ever. And 
they've got their bunny-ear crests, which have to be one of the 
shortest-lived features ever to appear in a bird's name.

The Clark's and Western Grebes are courting, and I saw a Horned Grebe 
almost all the way into breeding plumage, and a couple of Eared Grebes 
well started. And some of the Ruddy Ducks are really, really ruddy....

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