A female Red-winged Blackbird darts through golden cattails, breakfast in beak, wings glowing in morning light.

“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.” — Friedrich Schiller

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A mallard in eclipse plumage glides through a Manitoba marsh, its reflection caught perfectly in the golden reeds.

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