Gray cotton candy coats short, caramel-colored stems. It’s snow mold revealing as winter recedes. Beyond the last drift of stale white, there’s a vast meadow of flat pocked with ponds. Pronghorn antelope graze in the foreground. Franklin’s gulls swoop in the background. Both are easy to see. Curlews are not. Long-billed curlews are the kings of camo. They hold low and still in shallow cover not flushing until they’re nearly stepped on.