Claire Fenton, who made the little quilt in yesterday's post, is okay and home again. She had tree damage and ,of course, power outage. She was evacuated for a week by Gustav and says that Ivan got entirely too close for comfort, flooding areas south of her. And Corky is doing okay, but he will have to take the antibiotics until this coming Thursday.
When Corky and I walked near his house last Friday I noticed that the Pied-billed grebes have returned for their winter stay. These are some of the smallest grebes, only about a foot from beak to tail. Notice the wonderful circular ripples around them.
A male and female checking each other out.
This is the male swimming a circle around his 'intended'.
Later when we were walking back toward the house I saw them again and the male was displaying for the female, who seems completely bored. It is about a half an hour later and the angle is different than the first two pictures, thus the grey water.
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