Monthly Marathon photo number 208 (Brit. Birds 97: plate 145, repeated here as plate 263) is a real `stinker', causing your solutionwriter many hours of frowning and even more cursing! There are no prizes for making the initial identification as a duck, and one that has chosen to swim away! From there, things go downhill rapidly, as the bird could not have adopted a worse position if it had tried. ...

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