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Tuesday May 11, 2010

Dave Bonta May 11, 2010

Gray squirrel in a walnut tree gnawing on a walnut, fox squirrel in a maple feasting on maple keys: one spits out shells, the other, wings.

Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged fox squirrel, gray squirrel
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