Happy Dance / Saluting a neighbour/

The cormorant and the loon are birds a plenty in the North Kawartha Region. I spend many weekends each summer and fall in a rented island cottage on Stoney Lake. The cormorants lite on a rock outcropping to the east about 30+ metres from the island. On this particular day they were quite active, arriving for a break while on their fly-by. I saw this as fortuitous timing as a boater was coming into the frame as I was shooting. I shot it with my Nikon D5100 with a 70-300 lens. As for the loon, on a different weekend, it was dancing around the North West side of the island while I watched and waited from my 18-foot Prospector canoe. The water droplets dripping off his beak on this shot contributed to the only image in a dozen-plus shots which which showed the true character of the loon. I have photographed many of these two birds over the years, but these recent ones stand out.