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Wednesday July 29, 2009

Dave Bonta July 29, 2009

Two years later, the branch still dangles upside-down above the forest floor. A hummingbird pauses over a tansy and taps it with her bill.

Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged ruby-throated hummingbird, tansy
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