From the Salton Sea, one of a large number of juvenile snowies that were there in November.
This one was quite a challenge, as I had to add canvas to the right and the bottom. I had just barely gotten the whole bird in the bottom of the frame, so I had to select the bird, cut it out of the background, then use content aware scaling to make the water bigger. Then I went back and cloned water into the hole left by the bird, unselected the original background and made the final result.
50D, EF400mm f/5.6L
Manual mode, f/5.6@1/2000 ISO 200 WB 5100K
AI Servo autofocus, hh no flash