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Red Canyon Robin

Red Canyon | Lander, Wyoming

I had stopped along the dirt road to take a break from the ride when I noticed him. He’d been there the whole time, most likely, perched on top of a weathered fence post. Surveying whatever a robin surveys from five feet up. I had my camera on the bike. That part was luck. The rest was just not moving too quickly.

The American robin is so familiar to most people that it stops registering as a wild bird. A backyard bird. A lawn bird. But this one was doing what robins in the rural West actually do. Work the margins of grazing country, using whatever high ground is available, completely at home in a landscape most people pass through at sixty miles an hour without looking. The barbed wire and the weathered post and the loose wire curling away from the fence wasn’t incidental. That’s his habitat.

The blue of a Wyoming spring sky against the orange of his breast required nothing from me except being stopped at the right moment.

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