Finch And Marmot

Clip up from last Tuesday in Tuolumne...Cassin's Finch and Marmot...no pics today...sunny hot smokey....fire is a control burn that started as a lightning strike on one Old Snag...WOW has become part of the routine...and I'm finding that sleeing right up to work time is just as well...makes a kinda normal schedule...so...nitynight now is like four am!!...hmmph...

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Through the years and increasing sickness, Cassin remained a bird fanatic, in his own words: "Did you say anything about California birds? …I am gone in that direction—totally gone—the Ornithological incubus or monomania—or old man of the sea—or goitre—or whatever it may be under which I have labored now for twenty years …took the direction of California birds…."
http://www.towhee.net/history/cassin.html
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