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Month: July 2022

July 2, 2022 by Dave Bonta

A few drips of rain. The squeaky begging of a fledgling at the woods’ edge. It breaks cover to hazard flying—a flurry of wingbeats.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags rain
July 1, 2022 by Dave Bonta

I watch a new squirrel figure out the tree-to-tree route out of the woods, backtracking, sizing things up. The sun goes in.

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On This Day

  • April 12, 2025
    Cold and heavily overcast. A gray squirrel emerges from the woods like a ghost, seeming to float over the rain-darkened leaf duff, fur the color…
  • April 12, 2024
    Wind throbs in the treetops; the birdcall app thinks it’s a drumming grouse. Juncos twitter from the lilac, which has just burst its buds—a green…
  • April 12, 2023
    Two phoebes in a singing contest at dawn. A warm breeze. The half-moon settles in a tall pine.
  • April 12, 2022
    Warm rain. Phoebe and robin drown out the night chant of peepers. All the daffodils’ cups have turned bottoms-up.
  • April 12, 2021
    Overcast and cool. Up on the ridge, two or three crows scold a Cooper’s hawk: high-pitched whines, a gargling rattle. The hawk zips off.

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