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December 27, 2023 by Dave Bonta

Thick fog and silence. A song sparrow pipes up just before sunrise. It gets darker again. A bluebird warbles as the rain resumes.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags bluebird, fog, rain, song sparrow, sunrise
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