Originally posted by Asktheanimals
Like some people on certain websites which shall go nameless; the object in the photo is ......a loon.
Im serious, blue on top, white on the bottom and a long sharp bill.
[edit on 4-11-2009 by Asktheanimals]
To everyone who thinks it's a dragonfly, I see what you're seeing, but you're being fooled by an optical illusion and ignoring some important
details to make that conclusion. what appears to be two sets of wings is really only 1 set of wings. How can you tell? Well that orangish fuzziness
that appears in 2 places on the left and looks like it might be 2 wings is the leading edge and trailing edge of one wing, and we can tell this
because the wings aren't the only part surrounding the creature with that color, it's a motion blur color that surrounds practically the entire
creature.
But even more convincingly, the body shape is wrong for a dragonfly, they are tubular or cigar shapes, and this body shape is more bulbous like a
bird, (duck or loon).
And the real clincher if those first two didn't fully convince you, is the bird feet under the creature, dragonflies don't have bird feet, only
birds do!
I can't be 100% sure if it's a loon or a duck or possibly another bird, but I'm relatively certain based on the observations I cited that it's not
a dragonfly and is most likely a bird. I think the loon is really a pretty decent guess, as is duck, they can look a lot alike and the main difference
is size which we can't determine.
[edit on 5-11-2009 by Arbitrageur]