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Podiceps auritus (Horned Grebe)

I was really quite surprised to see this little guy pop up. At first I thought it was a Western Grebe because I saw them in the summer, but this is a smaller bird with a much smaller bill.


Age: Mature
Altitude: 6m (19 feet)
Camera: Nikon D800
Date: Sunday, December 11th, 2016 at 3:04 PM
Exposure: 1/250 sec at f3.5
Exposure Compensation: 851 ev
ISO: 200 asa
Lens: 400mm f2.8G ED VR AF-S NIKKOR
With cropping (you see 18% of the image as shot), this lens is effectively a 918mm lens on a 35mm camera
Location:
Claira Point Out To Nara Bonapartes Gull Claira Not Happy About Rain Claira At Beach Claira With Her Stick Jumping At Lorano Nara Burrying Claira Savannah Sparrow At Sunrise Piggy Back At Beach Claira Filling ABucket Claira Point Out To Nara Claira Using Seaweed For Her Bucket Bonapartes Gull Nara On Low Trunk Jumping At Lorano Savannah Sparrow At Sunrise Pacific Bleeding Heart Backlit Pacific Bleeding Heart Trail Side White Crowned Sparrow Capstan With Water View No Lawn Front Yard Large Enough To Play Football Fern Growing Out Of Mossy Trunk Fern With A Slight Twist Large Orange Fungus Nara Inspecting Her Shoes Boletus Mirabilis In The Moss Beans Picked For The Feast Freighters With Light Point Atkinson Lighthouse Left Side of Cove Panoramic Lost Lake View Of Power Lines White Crowned Sparrow Capstan With Water View No Lawn Front Yard Large Enough To Play Football Fern Growing Out Of Mossy Trunk Frilly Orange Caterpillar Helen And I Bright Yellow Iris With Ants Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park Sea Terminal, South Terminal, Main Terminal Of YVR Left Side of Cove Panoramic Sea Lions on the Rocks Bumps on a Rail Lost Lake At Ladner Whiskey Cove, Belcarra At Crab Park Claira Filling ABucket Claira Point Out To Nara Claira Using Seaweed For Her Bucket Bonapartes Gull Claira Not Happy About Rain Claira At Beach Claira With Her Stick High Five For Good Ride Locamo Beach Day Nara On Low Trunk Jumping At Lorano Boletus Mirabilis In The Moss Claira Filling ABucket Claira Point Out To Nara Claira Using Seaweed For Her Bucket Bonapartes Gull Claira At Beach High Five For Good Ride Nara On Low Trunk Jumping At Lorano Alder Tree Torn With Blackberries Mourning Cloak On Fallen Log Yellow Iris With Ants Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park View Down Oak Street Burrard Street Bridge in Snow David and Eric on Large Pump House Art On The Beach English Bay David And Lost Lagoon Blues and Purples First Beach 2004 Sunset White Crowned Sparrow Yellow Iris With Ants Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park Burrard Street Bridge in Snow Sea Terminal, South Terminal, Main Terminal Of YVR Sea Lions on the Rocks Sandheads Lighthouse David and Eric on Large Pump House Art On The Beach English Bay David And Lost Lagoon Down Temple Steps Yellow Iris With Ants Pink Spheres Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park Burrard Street Bridge in Snow Sea Terminal, South Terminal, Main Terminal Of YVR Left Side of Cove Panoramic Sea Lions on the Rocks Bumps on a Rail Lost Lake Dive Site Right Yellow Iris With Ants Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park Sea Terminal, South Terminal, Main Terminal Of YVR Left Side of Cove Panoramic Sea Lions on the Rocks Bumps on a Rail Lost Lake Dive Site Right View From Second Chief Petgill Lake Bonapartes Gull Bonapartes Gull Claira Climbing On Logs High Five For Good Ride American Goldfinch Dropping In Savannah Sparrow At Sunrise Piggy Back At Beach Running On Sandy Beach Capstan With Water View Freighters With Light Point Atkinson Lighthouse Bonapartes Gull Claira Climbing On Logs High Five For Good Ride Chickadee Looking For Handouts Coopers Hawk Coopers Hawk Side View Great Blue Heron Watching From Tree American Goldfinch Dropping In Savannah Sparrow At Sunrise Claira Filling ABucket Claira Point Out To Nara Standing In The Sand At Locarno Beach Claira Using Seaweed For Her Bucket Bonapartes Gull Claira Not Happy About Rain Claira At Beach Claira With Her Stick Locamo Beach Day Nara On Low Trunk Nara Burrying Claira Boletus Mirabilis In The Moss Claira Filling ABucket Claira Point Out To Nara Claira Using Seaweed For Her Bucket Bonapartes Gull Claira At Beach Locamo Beach Day Nara On Low Trunk Alder Tree Torn With Blackberries Fiddlehead Unfurling Mourning Cloak On Fallen Log Burrard Street Bridge in Snow Art On The Beach David And Lost Lagoon Blues and Purples First Beach 2004 Sunset Capstan With Water View Fluffy Great Blue Heron Common Goldeneye Male David Lifting Noelle Into Tree Claira As Tall As ABrussel Sprout Claira Lounging In Tube Yellow Iris With Ants Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park View Down Oak Street Burrard Street Bridge in Snow Art On The Beach English Bay David And Lost Lagoon Blues and Purples First Beach 2004 Sunset Irises By Beaver Lake On Siwash Rock Yellow Iris With Ants Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park View Down Oak Street Burrard Street Bridge in Snow Art On The Beach English Bay David And Lost Lagoon Blues and Purples First Beach 2004 Sunset Irises By Beaver Lake On Siwash Rock Yellow Iris With Ants Pink Spheres Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park View Down Oak Street Burrard Street Bridge in Snow Left Side of Cove Panoramic Bumps on a Rail Lost Lake Whiskey Cove, Belcarra At Crab Park Yellow Iris With Ants Pink Spheres Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park Sea Terminal, South Terminal, Main Terminal Of YVR Left Side of Cove Panoramic Sea Lions on the Rocks Bumps on a Rail Lost Lake At Ladner Whiskey Cove, Belcarra New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park Sea Terminal, South Terminal, Main Terminal Of YVR On Approach To Mudge Stephen And His Sunset Big Windows View From Mount Norman Left Side of Cove Panoramic Reflecting Pond New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants Sea Terminal, South Terminal, Main Terminal Of YVR On Approach To Mudge Big Windows Left Side of Cove Panoramic Reflecting Pond Retreat Island Sunset Four Otters Sea Lions on the Rocks New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants On Approach To Mudge Reflecting Pond Four Otters Sandheads Lighthouse Ferry Terminal Dive Site Right Castle With Irises Mud Flats at Sunset Waiting For Lifts To Open New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants On Approach To Mudge View From Second Chief Mud Flats at Sunset Waiting For Lifts To Open View From Lunch Tarn In Front Of Anniversary Glacier Mark And Mike At Summit Boat At Landing Boardwalk In Meadow New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants Waiting For Lifts To Open Mark And Mike At Summit Boat At Landing Boardwalk In Meadow Rock Margin Front of Condo Fence at Rathtrevor Wharf in Namu Diagonal Falls New National Park Sign Waiting For Lifts To Open Mark And Mike At Summit Boat At Landing Front of Condo Wharf in Namu Immature Bog Cranberry Numa Falls (Veiled) Athabasca Falls Closer Bromley Rock Mount Robson In Fog Yellow Iris With Ants Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park Left Side of Cove Panoramic Bumps on a Rail Lost Lake Dive Site Right View From Second Chief Petgill Lake Starvation Lake Whiskey Cove, Belcarra New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants Sea Terminal, South Terminal, Main Terminal Of YVR On Approach To Mudge Stephen And His Sunset Big Windows View From Mount Norman Left Side of Cove Panoramic Reflecting Pond Retreat Island Sunset New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants Sea Terminal, South Terminal, Main Terminal Of YVR On Approach To Mudge Big Windows Left Side of Cove Panoramic Reflecting Pond Retreat Island Sunset Four Otters Sea Lions on the Rocks New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants On Approach To Mudge Reflecting Pond Four Otters Sandheads Lighthouse Ferry Terminal Dive Site Right Castle With Irises Mud Flats at Sunset Waiting For Lifts To Open New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants On Approach To Mudge View From Second Chief Mud Flats at Sunset Waiting For Lifts To Open View From Lunch Tarn In Front Of Anniversary Glacier Mark And Mike At Summit Boat At Landing Boardwalk In Meadow New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants Waiting For Lifts To Open Mark And Mike At Summit Boat At Landing Boardwalk In Meadow Rock Margin Front of Condo Fence at Rathtrevor Wharf in Namu Diagonal Falls New National Park Sign Waiting For Lifts To Open Mark And Mike At Summit Boat At Landing Front of Condo Wharf in Namu Immature Bog Cranberry Numa Falls (Veiled) Athabasca Falls Closer Bromley Rock Mount Robson In Fog
Map
Plumage: Non-Breeding
Region: North America, Canada, British Columbia, Metro Vancouver, Vancouver, Jericho Beach Park
Scientific Name: species related to Podiceps auritus (Horned Grebe)
Larger image: 2000 x 1334
Raw image: 3208 x 2139

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