[EBB Sightings] Eared Grebe with Catch

Or a pipefish?  Just a guess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipefish

Glen Tepke
Oakland


----- Original Message -----
From: "Verne Nelson" 
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Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:33:55 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [EBB Sightings] Eared Grebe with Catch

Does anyone know what it caught?  I see Grebes and Snowy's catch these regularly in the shallows presumably near bottom rocks.  Their defense is to curl into a loop, grabbing their own tail? It makes subduing them quite difficult, often taking many minutes to undo.

http://www.pbase.com/image/119702874

My guess is some kind of eel.
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