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Behaketaren xehetasunak

Continuing visitor from Arctic tundra. At first there were eleven black-bellied plovers. Then fourteen. Then after twenty more minutes, sixteen. Where were they coming from?? I tried to magically turn some of them into a golden. Then suddenly in the little flock next to a log was the pacific golden-plover—this was a dozen or so feet from the spine of a humpback whale. Lots of gold spangles in its blingy crisp upper plumage. Yellowy wash on cheeks and sides of neck. Slender and smaller than nearby plovers. Smaller, more slender black bill than surrounding plovers. Photo