I shot this American Avocet, (Recurvirostra americana) yesterday about 30 miles west of Othello Washington. While shooting Burrowing Owls, a fellow photographer generously divulged this location, and as you can see, it was worth the short drive to get to the small pond where a flock of perhaps two dozen birds were straining food from the mud base of the pond.

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