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Dave Bonta April 22, 2016

Overcast and damp. A tom turkey’s lusty declarations echo off the hillside, punctuated by the crisp, interrogatory whistles of a cowbird.

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Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged cowbird, wild turkey
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