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      Today being my first day off of the long Christmas weekend, I 
decided to check some ponds in preparation for the Cumberland County 
CBC on the 26th.   I'm concerned by the continuing lack of small 
birds, especially sparrows.  I have more action in my yard in an hour 
at lunch than I saw this morning, and not for the first time.
      However, in addition to the 40 Canada geese and 8 mallards on a 
golf course pond, I found 6 green-winged teal feeding along a wooded 
edge at long range.  I went back to the house and returned with my 
scope to nail down the id.  The g-ws were my first in that location 
and my first in Cumberland County.  Now, if they'll just hang around 
until Tuesday. . . . .
      I had read somewhere that pied-billed grebes are insectivores. 
Today I saw one that had caught a fish too large to swallow easily. 
The grebe was swimming around and working on swallowing.  How did I 
spot it?   A brown grebe with a bright white neck/breast is 
distinctly unusual.

Bob
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Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC 28311
910-630-7037     rperkins@methodist.edu