XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.puzzles
From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl

occam  wrote:

> On 23/07/2025 22:23, lar3ryca wrote:
> > On 2025-07-23 01:42, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> >> HenHanna@NewsGrouper  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Duck Landing on a Lake
> >>> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1945602812131344384/vid/
> >>> avc1/720x722/FHO
> >> dcx2n9V8DfQxs.mp4
> >>
> >> This belly landing is not the way the ducks (and swans) I see do it.
> >> The ones I see water ski on their feet until all speed is lost,
> >> then they sink nearly straight down.
> >> I guess this is some other kind of bird,
> >
> > Am I in your killfile?
> >
> > I already pointed out that it is a Loon.
> >
>
>   There are a lot of loons here Larry.  He may have thought you
> were just referring to one of the posters here (e.g. the OP, Hen Hanna).

Larry's Loons are a Canadian kind.
The birds are know as 'Divers' in BrE, and as 'Duikers' (or Zeeduikers)
in Dutch. French has the comparable 'Plongeons'.
(because capable of diving at speed to catch fish)

Being arctic birds they are seen only as winter guests in these parts,
(and I guess not at all in Luxembourg)

Jan

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