Description: Horned Grebe captures and swallows a a large cold-water pipefish (no common name other than that as far as I know) Syngnathus leptorhynchus, in Morro Bay, CA 14 Dec 2007 - set of 4 images Thanks to Ken Bondy ken [at} kenbondy d o t com for help on the fish ID keywords: Horned Grebe 14dec2007 Syngnathus leptorhynchus "1D Mark III" 600mm bairdphotos.com Bird California fish "high ISO" mikebaird "Morro Bay" "Morro Rock" photomorrobay.com polarizer telephoto CA USA Pipefish “high ISO” ISO800 “Morro Bay” “Morro Rock” I am calling this a Horned Grebe (some claimed Eared Grebe) in part due to Bill Bouton's bill [at} charter dot net statement "Mike's image looks like Horned to me" and that Horned has : 1. apparently "heavy", straightish bill 2. high point of head is to the back, behind the eye. 3. pale spot in lore (between eye and base of bill) 4. bill shape: thin and upturned in Eared, stockier and heavier in Horned 14dec2007 Friday 14 Dec. 2007 - Photo by Mike Baird, Canon 1D Mark III with 600mm IS lens w/ 2X II TE and polarizer, on tripod –
bairdphotos.com flickr.bairdphotos.com photomorrobay.com morro-bay.com UPDATE 16dec2007 the prey here may be a large cold water Pipefish Syngnathus leptorhynchus - see
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipefish UPDATE 15dec2007 lightened image replaces darker version published 13dec2007 HELP: I would like help identifying the kind of Grebe this is - please Flickr mail or contact mike [at} mikebaird dot com. Date: 14 December 2007, 15:42. Source:
Horned Grebe captures and swallows a a large cold-water pipefish in Morro Bay, CA. Author:
Mike Baird from Morro Bay, USA. Camera location
35° 22′ 12.02″ N, 120° 51′ 51.66″ W View all coordinates using:
OpenStreetMap 35.370006; -120.864350.
