The bird was in an upright position, still bobbing like a decoy when  
Erik Bruhnke retrieved it from the water (dead and already stiff with  
rigor mortis).  One eye did appear to bevever so slightly open at the  
time, but the bird was most definitely dead ;-)

Ben Yokel
Cotton, MN

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