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Driven to Distraction

10,000 Birds

As far as I can tell it is the most northern breeding record for the species. The bird rears up, calls and splashes, it thrashes around on the surface and dives and porpoises about. I was making my way towards a Pacific Loon nest that I have been monitoring when the Baird’s Sandpiper appeared. It would be a hard act to ignore.

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