Vertical photo of an American coot--a chartreuse-legged, lobe-toed, chickenlike black water bird with a tiny head, red eyes, and a white bill--spotted through a mass of fuzzy green and gold reeds and grasses. The coot is standing on a log at the edge of a satiny grey lake beside a metal post that stretches above but leans towards them, making an acute angle with the log. One of the grass stalks in the foreground completes the triangle framing the coot.