Some of the most interesting photographic subjects are also the ones many of us don’t give even a passing thought about, such as the robins, ducks, mocking birds, crows, or vultures.

This beauty was just hanging out in the grasses of the mudflats that line the edges of the bay. Although I was out searching for the various types of egrets, herons, yellow legs, sandpipers and such, I was somehow drawn to capture this brief moment of time this majestic creature graced me with.