American Coot

Although coots are common year-round residents in the Olympia area, their numbers appear to fluctuate a bit across the year. Erika and I took this coot image on 21 August 2019 on Capitol Lake. The bird is waving its webbed toes at us, proving that coots are, indeed, not ducks. They are, instead, rather large rails. I have occasionally written about these apparently discombobulated birds in my blog pages. This post is one of a backlog of a couple of dozen posts that sit patiently in my computer, awaiting publication. A rainy forecast for the next week suggests ample time to whittle away on these posts over the next few days.