Dennis,

You're right, and I wonder if there may be some distortion at
play here. In life, the bird had a pretty ungainly looking
bill, and I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary at the
time.

I've added some original, untouched photos to:

http://www.pluggablelogic.com/aves/yblo.html

The second photo on the page is the original of the first.
As you can see, these were shot thru a scope, and I made a
slight rotation (5% clockwise) to the original in addition
to cropping it, etc. Perhaps rotating a jpg is to blame
here!

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Haynie [mailto:Carl.Haynie at pluggablelogic.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 5:22 PM
To: carl.haynie at pluggablelogic.com
Subject: Yellow-billed Loon still there (photo)




Subject: Re: Yellow-billed Loon still there (photo)
From: "Dennis K Rockwell" <dennis.rockwell AT gte.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:12:58 -0700

Is it just me, or is there something wrong with the shape this apparent
YBLO's bill, particularly the upper mandible?

Dennis Rockwell Kennewick, WA dennis.rockwell AT gte.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Haynie"
To: "Tweeters"
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 9:26 AM
Subject: Yellow-billed Loon still there (photo)


> Hi Tweets,
>
> Dropped by Wanapum Dam on Saturday, June 7, and located the YBLO. It was
in
> the calm water a fair ways down from the torrents of gushing water in a
> small bay on the Kittitas Co. side.
>
> Photo: http://www.pluggablelogic.com/aves/images/yblo.jpg
>
> Carl Haynie
> Sammamish, WA
>
>