[Posted by Chuck Almdale]

Link to 2023 National Audubon Society winners.
The best of almost 9,000 entries.
Clear, sharp, interesting, unusual views, unusual behaviors, unusual angles.

Below snip: Three of the winners

Below: Willet by Elizabeth Yicheng Shen, amateur.
Certainly an unusual view.

Amateur photographer Trish Oster, who occasionally joins us on our monthly Malibu Lagoon birdwalks, took photo #82 of two Peregrine Falcons at Point Fermin, San Pedro, CA. She commented:

I took this photo when three Peregrine Falcon fledglings I watched were still working on their flight skills. The young falcon on the left stretched and flapped its wings…