Another colorful European Grebe, this time taken before any chicks arrived. We saw several solitary Grebes in Iceland. I find this to be a really striking bird.
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Downright gorgeous bird and very well photographed, David. I really need to get to somewhere these breed. I believe they do so on the refuge lakes in the Klamath Basin (I remember seeing them there some years ago, though not in this great a plumage).
@Diane_Miller I just checked a field guide. It may have been the Eared Grebe I saw. They’re fairly similar. It was on a mid-summer trip so I’m pretty sure they were breeding. We saw them on Tule Lake from the dike road.