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September 6, 2025 by Dave Bonta

A shimmer of rain, which the roof gathers into a smattering of drips. A pileated woodpecker flies over, yelling its head off. A pair of catbirds exchange notes.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags catbird, pileated woodpecker, rain
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On This Day

  • December 4, 2024
    After an orange sunrise, in the ordinary light of an overcast morning, the mechanical tapping of a downy woodpecker, the slow wingbeats of a raven.
  • December 4, 2023
    A mottled gray sky all the way to the horizon, not brightening even for the sunrise, let alone for the crows with their many complaints…
  • December 4, 2022
    Still haunted by dreams I can’t remember when the sun clears the ridge and sets the clouds of my breath aglow.
  • December 4, 2021
    Clear except for two contrails, fuzzy with age. Another scrap of gray paper has fallen from the old hornets’ nest, its lines blank as ever.
  • December 4, 2020
    The snow has shrunk to a few spots the low sun doesn’t reach. In the herb bed, the only white is a pile of clippings…

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