Always look forward to seeing these diving sea ducks every winter. They sometimes forage like and with cormorants and go thru a whole body of water like a wolf pack herding and eating fish.

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Note the pincers have already been removed and he is in the process of taking off the legs for some reason. Lotsa of entertainment watching these guys.

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In the process of removing one pincer with one to go. Poor guy relaxing down in the mud, and this duck with teeth dives down and snatches him and starts tossing him around like a rag doll and the morning was going so smooth.

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Love their big orange and black paddlers. They also drag their tails when they land to help slow them down.

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