High Sierra Topix

Nearly half of all the Eared Grebes in North America visit Mono Lake every autumn by the hundreds of thousands to feed on trillions of brine shrimp (Artemia monica). The bountiful food supply makes it possible for grebes to double their weight and fly to overwintering habitats at the Gulf of California and Salton Sea. But in the last two months, there has been a startling scene of hundreds of dead Eared Grebes on the shores of Mono Lake. These dead birds, according to one ornithologist, are juveniles that starved.
(Read the rest of story here.)
http://www.monolake.org/today/2015/11/0 ... mono-lake/

And a related story on Mono Lake water levels -
http://www.monolake.org/today/2015/10/2 ... g-in-2016/