#eared grebe

[woodsdyke]

seasons grebeings

[uwmspeccoll]

A Final Mueller-engraved Feathursday

Here is the last set of wood-engraved birds by Spokane, Washington printer and printmaker W. Gale Mueller (1927-2018) from his Forty Years of Birds ‘n Blocks, printed from the original blocks at his Millstone Press in 2009 in an edition of 53 copies. From 1969 to 2009, Mueller and his wife Bonnie sent holiday cards with Gale’s original bird prints using several relief print processes. He came to prefer wood engraving after 1986. Today we show engravings from 2004-2008, the final engravings in the book. For those who want to know more about these birds, here you go:

Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius)

Eared Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis)

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)

Downey Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens)

House Wren (Troglodytes aedon)

Our copy of this book is a gift from our friend Tony Drehfal.

View all the posts from this book.

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[iridescent-wildlife]

Eared Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) on top. Family Podicipedidae, order Podicipediformes.

American Coot (Fulica americana). Family Rallidae, order Gruiformes.

The grebe was following around a group of coots, seemingly either for food or to blend in. I got a video below the cut!

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. January 2023.

The bird trailing behind is the grebe. It was even copying their head bobbing.

[cjssin]

Eared Grebe looking at the observer lit by sun-light while drifting atop green water.

[inatungulates]

Black Sea harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena relicta

With eared grebe Podiceps nigricollis

Observed by vyacheslavluzanov, CC BY-NC

[longingforrotkehlchen]

Not the fluffiest butt in not the morning light.

Schwarzhalstaucher (eared grebe) am Max-Eyth-See, Mühlhausen.

[sofiaspeaksart]

art I made on @swirlyspark-art ’s whiteboard :]

(these were drawn by me except for the adorable little rabbit and clover, that was drawn by them)

[rayenigma]

Winnifred and captain Roscoe !

are they friends? are they lovers? or merely just acquaintances? or maybe a fourth, more sinister thing? only the story will tell.