Posted for Fred Fallon

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Changing kaleidoscope of grebes at Piscataway Park

Tied down by clean-up chores, I was unable to check out the grebes seen 
from Piscataway Park until y'day pm. Arriving ~ 1400, I met 2 groups of 
birders leaving - they had seen nothing but a Pied-billed. Among the 
~200 each Baldpates and Gadwalls, and a few Ring-necks, there were at 
first 2 Pied-billed Grebes but neither Horned nor Eared. But after while 
a new grebe showed up - its downward-sloping rear end immediately 
precluded Eared, but it proved to be not a Horned but a Red-necked 
emerging from its harlequin imm plumage. After ~ 20 min's I lost sight 
of it and never saw it again.  Also present was a single somewhat out of 
place f. Hooded Merganser.

Now this AM, I found neither Red-necked nor Eared, but a conventionally 
winter-plumaged Horned Grebe. The 2 Pied-billdes remained. Also present 
was a f. Red-thr Merganser; no trace of the f. Hooded.
 
Fred Fallon
Huntingtown