{"id":31614,"date":"2013-01-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=578e65cf8a191e1ee9a2403832fc4d1b"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:36:58","slug":"pied-billed-grebe-with-crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/pied-billed-grebe-with-crab\/","title":{"rendered":"Pied-billed Grebe with Crab"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I went to Lake Jesup Park on Sanford Ave early before work. I got there just after sunrise, hoping to find an owl or other early riser. I didn’t, but I did find an American Bittern, King Rail and all four wrens we have this time of year (Sedge, Marsh, House, Carolina). There were no photographic moments, though, until I got into the car to leave. I drove by the boat ramp, and I saw a Pied-billed Grebe dive and come up with a crab in its mouth. Then he fished out the rest of the crab. This time he had the crab by the claw.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

He was holding the crab in his bill by one of its legs, and he shook the crab until the leg came off.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

This left him with just a crab leg in his mouth.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Usually when I photograph birds shaking their heads, the head turns out all blurry, but this time, I must have captured him right has he was beginning, and the head is still sharp.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

He worked on the body with claw for quite some time. Eventually it dove, and when it came up, the crab was gone. I assume he swallowed it just before diving and I missed him swallowing it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pied-billed Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I went to Lake Jesup Park on Sanford Ave early before work. I got there just after sunrise, hoping to find an owl or other early riser. I didn’t, but I did find an American Bittern, King Rail and all four wrens we have this time of year (Sedge, Marsh, House, Carolina). There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2145772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2741,2465],"class_list":["post-31614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-pied-billed-grebe","tag-scott-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}