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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

After filling our water bottles at the clear mountain spring, the group splits and the majority continue on foot across the high pass to find many signs of bear presence in the area – scratching posts, scat (above), footprints; while the two of us continue by car along the very good final section of macadam prior to the village. Not at all.

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Birding Fallon: Well Worth the Trip

10,000 Birds

Yellow-headed Blackbirds singing in the reeds allowed us to get an arm’s length away. Yellow-headed Blackbird was another lifer for me, and omnipresent. The place was lousy with Swainson’s Hawks , and we may even have spotted a distant Golden Eagle. A Marsh Wren came out of hiding for us.

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