Listening?

[wendell westfall]

D90 70-200VR+2X@400 1/800 f/5.6 ISO400 0EV monopod

Recently I found this coot searching for food in a muddy marsh. I wonder -- was it listening for buried food (invertebrates?) or looking to see clearer or what? I've searched for info about coots' diets and food-searching habits and have not come up with a definitive/satisfactory answer. Very minor crop and adjustment in LR3.

Wendell

[Daniel Cadieux]

Not sure the answer to your query...to me it looks like it wanted to scratch itself but I'm sure you would have seen that happening. I could go for darker blacks here, and there is the semblance of subject movement on the head. Great look at the huge foot

[PhilCook]

Yes it looks to me also as if were scratching it's neck, or about to, I see lots of these feeding around here and I'm pretty sure they don't hunt by ear....interesting pose, but a bit much blur around the head sadly