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Red-breasted nuthatches (and their nasal calls) are characteristic of dense forests, but in winter they may migrate south into more open areas. I photographed these birds as they foraged in the dead lower branches of a huge Jeffrey Pine on Deadman Creek, in the eastern Sierra Nevada of California, at the north rim of the Grand Canyon, and -- during an unusual winter invasion -- near the Salton Sea in the California desert. |
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