Brown Creeper

"Species Saturday" vol. 2.

Living up to the name.

It will never not excite me to see a Brown Creeper. They feel like a bird you’re not meant to see. They’re also notorious to photograph—for myriad reasons.

For those photos I do have, which are passable but not as good as I’d like, I’d been out taking pictures of coyote scat. I looked up from the coyote latrine to see a little avia…