Aquatic Birds

Grebe Spin Cycle

I'd been following this grebe for awhile when it started some unusual bathing motions. It was already wet from diving so it skipped the getting wet part of a bath and went right into the spin cycle. It spun its entire body with drops being flung off in all directions.
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)

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