It is the end of the day and the streets are filling up with workers heading home. The fishermen on the lake are packing in their equipment to head home and prepare their catch for dinner. I always find it amazing how quick a lake will freeze over enough for people to head out on the ice and start cutting holes in it.

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Just one of those winter days where there is the right amount of warm and cold air to create a dense fog around the lake.

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The Lake Zorinsky pier on a cold foggy winters day. The lake is frozen over but the ice isn't thick enough yet to support fishing. It always seems to me as if nature goes quiet on the foggy days.

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In the wild when you grab a bite everyone else wants it also. So a food fight ensures. Not sure if the fish was to heave for the gull or it decided it wasn't worth the fight to keep it. At any rate it got dropped.

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It takes a lot of energy to make a fall migration and here at Ed Zorinsky Lake is a favorite refueling stop for the for their flight. On this cold cloudy fall day the lake and sky is just covered with birds looking for a meal or resting.

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Look close at the bill of the pelican and you can see he has manage to catch a snack. Meanwhile there are lots of Ring-billed Gulls flying around looking for a snack themselves.

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Sometimes it is hard to keep a meal to yourself when it is especially good or not enough to go around. The lead Ring-billed Gull has a mouth full of fish and everybody wants it. There was a pretty good fight before it was over and I am not sure which one ended up with it.

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Watching all the water fowl fly around on a windy spring day, I caught this Mallard in flight.
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American Coots making Vee lines away from me.
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Spent a lot of time here taking pictures of the ducks, American Coot, Canada Geese, Mallards and Northern Shoveler.
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American Coots, they do some real diving for the water grass.
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Redheads taking an autumn swim.
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Millards taking a autumn swim.
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Red-tailed hawk taking flight.

Time for lunch. Just have to go get it.

Altitude achieved.

Time to go.

Found this Bald Eagle at Lake Zorinsky in Omaha, NE,

A fine looking lady.

Well, this is one way to go fishing.

A Ring-Billed Gull with lunch. It was fun watching these guys go fishing.