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Lots of snow, gusting wind, round puffed up little birds all week. How do they tolerate it? Rather unusually low temps here.

Dark-eyed Junco braves wind and snow. Taken from our back-deck blind.

Larger view:
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Patterns. Empty store in an empty mall.

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I'm not a fan of malls or indoor shopping centers unless the weather feels as windy, snowy, and freezing as now. Then, at least one can walk as that unknown man walks here. (And sneak in a camera.)

But so many stores seem to close as malls turn to entertainment and child play areas to survive.

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Sparrow without a song...all fluffed up for the cold. Snow expected tomorrow.

"A rich, russet-and-gray bird with bold streaks down its white chest, the Song Sparrow is one of the most familiar North American sparrows. Don’t let the bewildering variety of regional differences this bird shows across North America deter you: it’s one of the first species you should suspect if you see a streaky sparrow in an open, shrubby, or wet area. If it perches on a low shrub, leans back, and sings a stuttering, clattering song, so much the better."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Song_Sparrow

This puffed-up sparrow in the tall grasses neither sang nor flew in a direction I expected. We had a bit of light this morning.

Comments unnecessary. Very large crop.

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