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March 8, 2022 by Dave Bonta

Back to more typical March weather, gloomy and cold. The stream gurgles low, the wren gurgles high, and two crows wing their way in silence to a breakfast of bones.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags Carolina wren, crow, stream
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