#earedgrebes — Public Fediverse posts
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Unfortunately the back roads in to #DevilsPostpile and #Yosemite had yet to open for the season. I drove further north to revisit #MonoLake instead. This time I went along the northwest side and found a boardwalk trail over wetlands and down to the lake. There were a large number of #EaredGrebes...
"In the fall, almost the entire population of Eared Grebes flies to Mono Lake, California, or Great Salt Lake, Utah, to fatten up on brine shrimp and alkali flies before migrating farther south. Here they more than double their weight, and the sizes of their muscles and organs change. The pectoral (chest) muscles shrink to the point of flightlessness and the digestive organs grow significantly. Before departure for the wintering grounds, the process reverses; the digestive organs shrink back to about one-fourth their peak size, and the heart and pectoral muscles grow quickly to allow for flight."