Grebes look a lot like ducks but have one very different characteristic. Ducks have webbed feet:

and Grebes have lobed toes:

We saw three grebe species today in a very rainy Col. Sam Smith Park.

Other birds:

8 am group:

11:30 group:

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CBC Radio Ideas documentary you might find interesting

13 Ways of Looking at a Cormorant

NATURE POETRY

The season comes when, from her three-month’s trance,
The Earth awakens: already her deep heart
Begins to stir, and send its life abroad.            – Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–72)

Miles Hearn