Bird Madness: Feathered Four #2

Wow! With 52% of the votes, to become the first image in our People鈥檚 Choice Bird Madness championship round (). It鈥檚 up to you to decide which photo it goes up against: the red-shouldered hawk or the egrets in the trees. Which do you like best?

Each round of the Soaring Sixteen, we posted two entries from this year鈥檚 . (Check out , announced last week, if you haven鈥檛 seen them yet.) Those winners went head to head in our Egret Eight round. The top quartet makes it to the Feathered Four, then two onto the championship match.

More than 2,200 votes have so far helped us choose the winners of our Soaring Sixteen and Egret Eight rounds. The ultimate victor of Bird Madness will appear on , along with a story about how he or she captured the shot.

Vote here! Voting closes on Sun., Jan. 15. Next week, we crown our People鈥檚 Choice Bird Madness winner!