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#7: 'Rear Window' but with birds

#7: 'Rear Window' but with birds

A bad cold, a bag of bird seed and too many European starlings

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Boaz Frankel
Mar 20, 2022
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I had a bad cold the other week so I camped out in our sun room with a mug of tea and a box of tissues as I convalesced for a couple days. Mostly I just stared at the bird feeders in our backyard. We have three different bird feeding contraptions: 

• a simple wooden tray loaded with a wild bird seed mix

• a suet box that’s currently filled with a ‘Nuts & …

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