The weather has been changing and it seems that fall is here.  This is the time of year that I generally switch from photographing birds in the yard to making excursions to photograph waterfowl, shorebirds and raptors.  Monday morning signaled that change when members of the OARS group told me that they had seen loons just outside the marina.  I drove by the marina on the way home and there, in the NW corner of the marina, was this season’s first loon!  I ran a fairly lengthy errand and when I went back by the marina the loon was still there.  I went home, grabbed my camera and got back down in time to take a couple of dozen photos of the loon.  These aren’t the best I’ve ever taken, but they do signal the change in the focus of my photographic activities.