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People of a Feather

10,000 Birds

Sure enough, I looked up to see a pair of yellow-bellied marmots, big woodchuck-esque creatures with adorable nose patches, come bounding and sliding down the steep, sparsely-tree range above the trail. During the winter the birds are dependent on small fissures in the sea ice kept open by the currents of the bay.