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Here are some more of the birds John Bullock and I saw from his canoe on Wednesday morning, plus a couple we saw on land.  White Pelicans, gang of four.  The only ones we saw on the reservoir.  They let us within sixty feet.  Here are the pelicans next to the row of a dozen Caspian Terns, looking tiny next to the pelicans.  If my picture were better you might spot a couple of Ring-billed Gulls in amongst the terns.  Ring-billed Gull looks us over while the Caspian Tern looks the other way.

 And a tern row.

Here are two Least Sandpipers, part of the scattered flock of dozens of peeps at Howard Prairie Lake’s north, shallow end.

Brown Creeper at Grizzly Campground.  Miniscule bird, big pine.

Mountain Chickadee performing the typical acrobatics of a chickadee after the smallest bugs on the underside of pine needle cluster. No slef-respecting creeper would ever hand upside down, but he has a long beak that reaches pray that elude the short-beaked chickadee even though they work the same trees.

Two Long-billed Dowitchers working the mud with their long, straight beaks.

Here’s that Mountain Chickadee again.  He just wouldn’t stop posing.

That white line across a red face is a good field mark for this species.

Next post: mammals and a surprising fellow on the shore.