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Dave Bonta December 17, 2013

The curious satisfaction of watching snow erase my own footprints. Up in the woods, the woodpeckers too are busy fixing what isn’t broken.

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Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged downy woodpecker, pileated woodpecker, snow
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