It's a black greasy looking (odd shiny feathers) salt water fisher kind of bird. They like to perch on floating logs and pylons and they dive into Puget Sound for food. They are smaller than seagulls. When they come back up after several dives they'll perch on a log and hold their wings out away from their bodies so their feathers will dry. I like them. :-)
I'm glad to help. You might want to double check on some of the birds, like crane and heron, to make sure they aren't the same bird (because I think they are), yanno? Now you've got names so you can look them up to make sure and to see what they look like. And herons are BIG. One landed in the back garden neighbour's back lawn a year or so ago. BIG.
The characters will know what the birds represent even if the reader must be told.
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Date: 2006-09-11 01:11 am (UTC)When they come back up after several dives they'll perch on a log and hold their wings out away from their bodies so their feathers will dry. I like them. :-)
I'm glad to help. You might want to double check on some of the birds, like crane and heron, to make sure they aren't the same bird (because I think they are), yanno? Now you've got names so you can look them up to make sure and to see what they look like. And herons are BIG. One landed in the back garden neighbour's back lawn a year or so ago. BIG.
The characters will know what the birds represent even if the reader must be told.