Photographed by Scott Shuey, this distinctive Tufted Puffin portrait was taken on Haystack Rock on picturesque Canon Beach in northwest Oregon.

You can almost feel the spray from the dancing Clark’s Grebes photographed by Scott Shuey on Upper Klamath Lake in southern Oregon.

Milton Hobbs photographed this stalking Green Heron at Reed Creek Park in Columbia County, Georgia.

A beautiful male Northern Parula was photographed by Milton Hobbs at Phinizy Swamp and Nature Park in Augusta, Georgia. (This photo of a rare gem of a warbler made the editors envious of Milton’s opportunity to record it digitally. Actually, they were envious of all these photos.)