  We report progress on calculations of the heavy-light baryons $\Sigma_c$ and
$\Lambda_c$ and their excitations with $J^P = 1/2^+$ using functional methods.
We employ a covariant quark-diquark approach, where the interaction amounts to
a quark exchange between quarks and diquarks and the ingredients are determined
from the quark level. A partial-wave analysis reveals the presence of orbital
angular momentum components in terms of p waves, which are non-relativistically
suppressed.
