# The writer reports seeing grebes year after year in rough water off Williamstown. > Cite as: PLOT record c/C41N-G5 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1894), reported by source - **Address:** c/C41N-G5, version 1 of 1 (https://www.plot.eco/c/C41N-G5) - **Value:** Although particularly to be seen in inland and coastal lagoons, they often venture from river mouths into turbulent waters, where I have noticed them year after year off Williamstown. (Historical passage) - **About:** Williamstown - **Kind:** Reported by source - **Who said it:** Reported by community - **Period:** 1894 - **Checked:** Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification. Checked by a person. - **Open questions:** None open - **Source:** The Victorian naturalist, v.11, 1894-1895 (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria), p. 44, victoriannatural11fiel, leaf 54, printed page 44 - **The snippet in PLOT:** - **How they know:** accounts-core@0.1.0: screen\_passage@1, extract\_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural11fiel, leaf 54, printed page 44 - **Limitations:** A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence. - **Editions:** october-26th-release - **How we found this:** Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "Species written about here", in historical\_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract\_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication. - Query: Williamstown \| Williams Town \| Williams-town \| Point Gellibrand \| Gellibrand's Point \| Gellibrand Point \| Jawbone \| Greenwich Bay in archive.org/victoriannatural11fiel (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match) - Screening: include (meets criteria): Grebes seen year after year off Williamstown. ## History - Version 1 (this version): first published version --- Machine-readable: https://www.plot.eco/c/C41N-G5.json Cite as: PLOT record c/C41N-G5 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1894), reported by source