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Dave Bonta May 2, 2018

A squirrel emerges beside the one white miniature daffodil, just coming into bloom as the others shrivel. A Baltimore oriole’s glossy song.

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Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged Baltimore oriole, daffodils, gray squirrel
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