[EBB Sightings] Tough to Swallow

Any number of times I have seen grebes and cormorants come up with
Pipefish. Especially at Lake Merritt. I finally looked it up and the
critter is the Bay Pipefish, Syngnathus griseolineatus. 

Some nice grebe pipefish photos:

 http://www.naturescapes.net/portfolios/displayimage.php?pos=-2201

and at Arrowhead Marsh. Click thumbnail, then click ?Larger View?

 http://blog.seeingbirds.com/photos/myspecies/321

The fish itself, from a location in Oregon:

 http://www.nanfa.org/NANFAregions/or_wa/98pics/newport/YBpipe.jpg

and it's natural history.

 http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/kopec/tr9/html/sp-bay-pipefish.html

    -Rusty Scalf