birds of winter

It has been a remarkably cold winter about the Great Lakes. We have had only a few hours of thaw, and many hours of negative Fahrenheit. The cold was a disincentive to photograph. Few were the days that the lake was free of visible ice. Even those days, where there were pools of open water, or cracks in the sheet to form a channel, the wind savaged naked, and lightly covered flesh. I did not get many good shots and snaps off, and the subjects were hard to come by. These were a few that i did take.

    Obi-Wan: "Still, even a duck has to be taught to swim."
    Luke: "What's a duck?"
    Obi-Wan: "Never mind."