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Month: October 2015

October 3, 2015 by Dave Bonta

Cold rain blowing sideways. The walnut trees behind the house have shed their leaves, unveiling a still-heavy ordnance of green orbs.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags black walnut, rain, wind
October 2, 2015 by Dave Bonta

Cold, overcast and dreary. A warbler on migration-layover darts through the porch, inches from my face—a flash of black and yellow.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags fall warblers
October 1, 2015 by Dave Bonta

In the green and yellow woods, here and there a red branch. But the kinglets in the birches hide their ruby crowns under olive-green shocks.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags black birch, fall foliage, ruby-crowned kinglet 1 Comment
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  • August 28, 2025
    Cold and clear, autumnal weather continues, with a heavy inversion layer that makes the interstate sound as if it’s just above the barn. Dew drips from the roof.
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    Warm and humid, with a sickle moon high overhead. I battle mosquitos in between reading about eastern equine encephalitis on my phone.
  • August 28, 2023
    Gray rain clouds thickening towards 8:00. It’s very still; long moments go by without a single bird call. A beetle finds its way to the butterfly weed.
  • August 28, 2021
    The fog slowly lifts, except where it’s been trapped by funnel spider webs. The cardinal’s cheer seems a bit misplaced.
  • August 28, 2016
    A warm morning, and all I hear are the birds of winter: chickadee, nuthatch, pileated woodpecker. A dead cranefly dangles from a spiderweb.

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