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Posted on January 6, 2016 by Rick Wright

Lonely at the Top

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These trees at the edge of Brookdale Park‘s sparrow patch are usually filled with European starlings. These past few mornings now, however, there’s been just one lonesome bird perched high in the bare twigs.

merlin

She must have offended the others somehow.

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