My vote is for a grebe, too, on the basis of the legs trailing well behind
with no hint of a tail and the apparently short, stubby wings. The seeming
gray in the plumage doesn't look right, but maybe that's a trick of the
light.



Kelly



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Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 12:05 AM
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Subject: [Tweeters] dead duck



<http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/myseattlepix/photo.asp?photoID=1008602>


Tweeters,



When the Issaquah paper came yesterday Leora and I both said "Western Grebe"
at the same time. For some reason the photo in the paper was more obvious
than the image on the computer, which still looks like a Western Grebe with
it's head laying over its back



Does not the second photo





http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/myseattlepix/photo.asp?photoID=1008602



show two very long and strange legs hanging down? These do not look like
duck legs to me. The National Geographic Field Guide has a drawing of a
flying Western Grebe that shows off it's long legs. It also lists it as 25
inches long.



Poor bird.



Larry Schwitters

Issaquah