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Small duck/bird with sleek blackish feathers and quite ring around neck/ head. It was very shy when approached it so it quickly plunged head first down into the depths of the an Anacostia River by Haines Point in DC. Then it reappeared a little further down the river, so obviously it's very proficient at swimming small distances underwater without any above or at surface-level detection. A loon? Too far south though...?
River inlet at Haines Point in DC where Potomac and Anacostia Rivers converge out eventually feed into the Cheaapeake Bay.
Small duck/bird with sleek blackish feathers and quite ring around neck/ head. It was very shy when approached it so it quickly plunged head first down into the depths of the an Anacostia River by Haines Point in DC. Then it reappeared a little further down the river, so obviously it's very proficient at swimming small distances underwater without any above or at surface-level detection. A loon? Too far south though...?
Hi again AWSM, what you may be able to do, even when you cannot zoom in any further, is crop the photo before posting so that the subject takes up about half the picture, or in the case of this size of subject crop to 600 pixels width and height. You may need an app for cropping on the phone or you could copy to a PC and use the built-in "Paint" program to crop and then post. Hope this helps.
It is one of the Grebes, possibly a Horned Grebe, but difficult to be certain from a small picture and it being in winter plumage when they look the same. It doesn't look like Pied-billed and Red-necked is the only other possibility in that area.
Spotted on Nov 23, 2014
Submitted on Nov 23, 2014
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