Four Dancing Swans

What an amazing day! This morning I headed to Crex Meadows, actually expecting that there would be very little to take photos of. After driving around the Meadows for about 45 minutes and getting ready to leave, I noticed a small pond with 4 swans in it. They were having a great time just swimming back and forth from one end of the pond to the other. They put on quite a show. One of them was quite aggressive and would snap at his mate from time to time and also stand straight up in the water and flex his muscles and feathers. I was able to get right next to the shore and quite close the the birds. My camera just kept clicking away - almost 800 photos in 25 minutes. I think I was in my "happy place". Praise the Lord - the weather was perfect and the swans didn't mind me sharing their space. God sure made a beautiful and majestic bird in the swan! Here are a few of the 800 photos I took today. (I only saved about 150 of the photos, but that is enough to play with!!!)

Dr. Dolittle

Spring has to be the best time of year for photography. It is finally warm enough for flowers to start blooming and bird migration is beginning. I think I have taken more animal pictures this week than I did all winter. There is a lake south and west of Spooner where the geese have laid their eggs and they are either sitting on them or they have already hatched. Today there was a goose and her goslings on the nest with the babies cuddling up to their mother. What an amazing and beautiful site! Praise the Lord for Spring!!! Here are a few of the animal pictures I took in the past 2 weeks. They range form geese, to osprey, to lamas and horses. I even took some photos of a few peacocks crossing the road. (Yes, I said peacocks!) Enjoy an let me know which animal you enjoy the most. Thanks and Happy Spring! For His Glory...