were numerous small tule islands and as the 
young widgeons, now grown much larger, swam 
among them they saw many western grebes 
with one or more of their young often perched 
on their backs. Queer-looking creatures were 
these grebes with their long necks and sharp 
bills. They had a way of playing pranks on 
the young that were enjoying rides on their 
parents’ backs. Every now and then an old 
grebe would slowly sink under the water and 
leave the youngsters to paddle for themselves. 
Il 
WueEN Baldpate was about half grown the 
family began wandering, and before long they 
were far from the sheltering creek where they 
had spent so many days. Their journey led 
them along the outer edge of the sunken marshes, 
and within a week they had traveled three or 
four miles down the lake. Here they came to a 
large island where the tules were all mashed flat. 
This was the nesting place of a great number of | 
big white pelicans. These are enormous birds. 
When one of these creatures spreads its wings as 
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