Great Crested Sunrise
Here’s another incredible bird picture from Spain. This one, “Great Crested Sunrise,” was taken by Jose Luis Ruiz Jiménez, and it won the top spot in the Bird Behavior category. It shows a great crested grebe couple feeding their young. The photo was taken during the creatures’ breeding season, when they look most striking. You can see their ornate plumage, spiky tufts of black down on their heads, fanned-out neck feathers, and hauntingly red eyes. And look at that little baby’s stripey head!
Ruiz Jiménez captured the picture after spending several hours up to his chest in water in a lagoon in west Spain, near small town of Brozas. He floated his camera on a U-shaped platform underneath a small camouflaged tent, and ducked his head under the platform, too. Bonus points for commitment, my dude.
