COMMON LOON WOOD DUCK The colors of the sunrise

The colors of the sunrise started to appear filling the sky

but much smaller

camera and focused on the coneflowers

Another prairie plant

COMMON LOON WOOD DUCK The colors of the sunriseI had been photographing the common loons for a few days and on this particular morning I was hoping one or two of the loons would come closer to the banks of the lake then they had the previous days. With this image, I had my eyes in the view finder of my Nikon camera using my 300mm f4. 0 lens on the tripod, checking out a loon when I lifted my head up and noticed this loon swimming just off shore checking me out. Excited that this was the shot I was