An American Avocet feeds in evening light near the Great Salt Lake. These elegant shorebirds feed in loose groups in marshes, fresh and salt water lakes, often squabbling among themselves and with other shorebirds. I liked this image for the light and water droplets from the beak.
A Wilson's Phalarope feeds on midges and brine flies in the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Phalaropes typically feed by swimming in circles and flushing out their prey, but here I observed them stalking the flies, pouncing on them at the end. The glowing water is from the setting sun filtering through skies filled with smoke from wildfires.
