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8/24/2010

Dave Bonta August 24, 2010

In the rainy half-dark, a small white oval shifting and wobbling on the end of a branch: the breast of a hummingbird.

Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged ruby-throated hummingbird
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  • 8/24/2010
    October 12, 2022
    Slightly warmer. Alarmed chipmunks go in and out of sync. The slow hegemony of clouds.
  • 8/24/2010
    October 12, 2021
    Still, with a flat-white sky. The throat-rattles of a crow chasing off a sharp-shinned hawk. The black birches fill with kinglets.
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    October 12, 2020
    Rain. A red-eyed vireo is calling. My brother the birder tells me that at daybreak there were seven species of sparrows on the garden fence.
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    October 12, 2018
    As many hours as the wind has been blowing, a strong gust brings still more leaves. A tulip poplar samara helicopters almost to the porch.
  • 8/24/2010
    October 12, 2017
    Gold on gold: a kinglet’s crest among the birch leaves. Rust on rust: a chipmunk’s fur among rain-flattened tangles of stiltgrass.
  • 8/24/2010
    October 12, 2016
    Clear and still. The witch hazel in the garden has just opened its first blooms, spidery petals a far purer yellow than the curling leaves.
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    October 12, 2015
    Another cool and cloudless morning. The hollow echoes with the croaks of ravens. A pileated woodpecker taps on the side of my house.
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    October 12, 2014
    Clear and cold, though still no first frost. In the garden, the lily-of-the-valley berries have dulled over like the hearts of dead moles. * This…
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    October 12, 2013
    Several bright spots in the clouds where the sun might be hiding like a pea in a shell game. Dozens of crows fly overhead, most…
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    October 12, 2012
    The rabbit ambles out of its favorite rose bush—no minks in sight this morning—and nibbles on a tuft of grass at the edge of the…

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