Out in the Open
My morning started with a shadowy view of the night heron, which was doing a fantastic job of clinging to the steep slope of a dead tree trunk using only one foot: That shot was truthfully way too dark to take and the grain in the photo is evidence of that. More light was needed. I turned my gaze to the far bank where the night's veil had already lifted. I was trying to spot the red-tailed hawk whose cries I could hear, when I picked up some movement right at the edge of the lake. I knew instantly what it was, as I have met this creature before... going back to the last week in May this year, I remember that I was having a hard time obtaining any detailed photos of a pied-billed grebe which had been working the middle of the lake for about one week. Here is the photo I finally captured: I was using any vantage point I could find to get a little closer, and one of those vantage points was a concrete drainage pipe which I was standing on with my back propped against a tree....