Went off to one of my secret locales in Anchorage for one of my favorite birds in AK, the Red-necked Grebe. Not one you find outside, especially in breeding plumage, I target this bird in June when I’m in AK. The Base Camp campers got quite a show, from great backlit feeding (the water splashing is from killing a little fish it had caught), to courtship and in this case, defending a territory from another male, to just simply coming up and saying hello. Light and backgrounds were on the learning agenda for the day and the grebes made it great!
Photos captured by D3, 600VR w/TC-17e on Lexar UDMA digital film.