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Monday March 03, 2014

Dave Bonta March 3, 2014

Fresh from drinking out of the cold stream, a chickadee swipes its bill rapidly against a twig, then goes to join the others in the birches.

Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged black birch, chickadee, stream
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