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April 20, 2023 by Dave Bonta

Hen turkey calling at sunrise like a rusty machine pleading for oil, the tom interrupting with his usual non sequitur. A squirrel noses the stump of a freshly felled locust.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags black locust, gray squirrel, wild turkey
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On This Day

  • November 26, 2024
    Rainfall stopping by sunrise. An oak leaf comes sailing out of the woods and spirals down onto the porch. Holes in the clouds open and…
  • November 26, 2023
    Another still, cold sunrise. I watch Venus creeping through the crown of a black locust, dwindling to a point that finally vanishes behind a flotilla…
  • November 26, 2022
    A close shot echoes off the ridge—it’s the opening day of regular firearms deer season. The sun moves slowly through the trees, dimming, blazing.
  • November 26, 2021
    Snow on the ground and in the air. When the wind eddies around to the east, a great flock of shriveled leaves lifts off from…
  • November 26, 2020
    A few blue fissures in the clouds. A tree sparrow explores the ridges and valleys of the corrugated steel roof over the oil tanks.

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