Early Skies

A decade ago you would have been hard pressed to find one of these agile giants in the wild at all. The population had fallen below a thousand and was still going down. They are back now, in numbers, which is the rarest sentence in this entire trade. The sun came over the snow line and the yellow came up off the water and this one answered it with a wave of the tail. The light in this photograph is not what makes it worth something to me. That number is.