This Spotted Sandpiper was perched on a fence post right next to a small slough/pond, and I had to take my photos looking towards the sun. Seen SW of Calgary on 26 June 2013, when I went for a drive along some of the backroads. Other than a few patches of damaged gravel road, there was no sign of the "Flood of the Century" that has hit Calgary and many places in the province so hard.

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