I have photographed cinnamon teals in the past, but it has usually been from a vehicle or the road. Approaching them any closer invariably spooks them away. So this spring, I decided to make photographing them close-by as one of my goals. It was more challenging than I thought, but eventually I got my chance early one morning when this pair swam to where I was photographing. They became wary after noticing me close-by - as their expressions show - but stayed around. I liked the scene with the even light and newly growing reeds in the background.
A juvenile bald eagle traverses across a frozen lake on a winter morning in search of food. Bald eagles feed mostly on injured birds or fish, sometimes stolen from more skillful fishing birds. In winter, they tend to gather in around frozen lakes and rivers, where breaks in the surface ice provide a source of fish. I noticed the eagle warming up on the lake a little earlier. Soon, it started to scour an area where there was a break in the ice sheet, for fish. I liked the scene presented by dark eagle framed in the open winter landscape.