Bird Photo Competition 1 2018 : Entry Number 75

A picture of elegance, made by the lines and plumes of these courting grebes, accentuated by the red eye and yellow bill of the right hand bird.

My name is Anita Ross. I took these two Western grebes at Lake Hodges in Escondido, California. After years of the lake being low because of a lack of rain, last year for the first time in seven years the grebes found the conditions just right for bringing little grebes into the world. I'm hoping they will have chicks again this year. I was using my Canon 5D mark IV camera with a 2X extender on my 400 DO II lens.