Thanks, guys. When I took the shot (actually of a group of 3 of those birds) I thought it was just a ho-hum okay shot. When I looked at it later in Lightroom, the closest bird was noticeably out of focus, but I found the light patterns in the water interesting; so I cropped it down (pretty significantly) to just the rightmost bird which looked as if it were looking at me, and I realized that was a much nicer picture, anyway. 🙂
PS: It's now printed out and hanging next to me in my cubicle at work.