Mono Lake grebes in late fall
Drove up from Mammoth the night before. Mono Lake in late October is mostly about the eared grebes — they stage here by the hundreds of thousands before moving south — and the alkali flies that feed them. The south tufa area was closed at the main lot but I walked in from the south road and had the whole shoreline to myself. Phalaropes were done, but gulls and grebes were the show.
Temperature was below freezing for the first two hours. I wore gloves thin enough to still work a joystick and they were not warm enough.
