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Black, 16

Orange, 6A

my first good look at the first of the brood to fledge. And apparently, judging by its expression, the bird's first good look at me. It is perched in the raven nest tree

on the nest

two nestlings visible

adult and one juvenile in first photo, two juveniles in second and adult barely visible in bottom left of second photo. Same family group members in both photos

At Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge

Mama and two babies at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge

At Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve

with nestlings

at the nest

foraging

with nestlings

family portrait....

adult of resident pair on left with the three fledglings. Note juvenile pulling feather on adult

eating red mulberries

chased the Rose-breasted Grosbeak (previous observation) off this perch and took it himself

on top of birder Richard's car

Only one found scouring the sagebrush.

field marks - small all-dark bill, long primary projection, eye-ring shape, no tail bobbing or dipping, did not vocalize while I was observing

observed to bob tail down

Along Warm Springs Road, 3.2 miles east of Warm Springs Camp, southern Panamint Mountains, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, elev. approx. 1300 feet (400 m).