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September 19, 2024 by Dave Bonta

8:00 o’clock church bells and the fog has nearly all lifted. A nuthatch calls down by the stream, soon joined by chickadees. From my mother’s house, the measured voices of NPR.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags chickadee, church bells, fog, radio, white-breasted nuthatch
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