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Birds looking sideways at the world: 💙🤍💙

(Tree swallow, Deschutes National Forest, , May 10)

A tree swallow perches on a broken stub of branch emerging from a much-decayed snag tree’s trunk. In the blazing midday sun of the high desert, its back feathers are a decadent iridescent marine blue that ancient craftsmen would have labored weeks to produce in pigment; its front, from cheekbone to undertail coverts, is spotless white. It tips its tiny, almost stylized face to the side to train its dark globe of an eye upon the world. It has a tiny insect-grabbing triangle of beak and a slash of dark bandit-mask across its eyes. Rampantly anthropomorphizing, it looks quizzical!
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