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cattails

June 25, 2009 by Dave Bonta

Beside the springhouse, the twittering zoom of a hummingbird’s courtship dive: from sunlight into cattail shadows and back. Tanager song.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags cattails, ruby-throated hummingbird, scarlet tanager, springhouse
January 12, 2009 by Dave Bonta

The moon comes out, and there’s the rabbit, crouching next to the lilac. It races across the driveway and disappears into the cattails.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags cattails, cottontail, lilac
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