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It is only by watching the weather segment on our local newscast that I’ve learned how warm May has been for the majority of our state. While sea breezes stall our Stonington temperatures in the low to mid fifties, inland the temperatures are now reaching the high seventies and even eighties. I know - and boasted - about how we enjoy temps that are ten degrees lower than the mainland in summer, but surely a twenty or twenty-five degree difference is unjust. Anyhow… This morning as I stood on the front porch an hour after first light, I suddenly heard a whir of rapidly beating wings not two inches from my face, felt the strange turbulence of air, and registered a gray and black smudge of color across my immediate field of vision that blotted out every other detail. It was past in a split second and I swiveled to follow its passage. The chickadee that had buzzed me paused to perch in the hibiscus tree to mock me - chick-a-dee dee-dee! And yet, maybe he was chastising me for occupying space unexpectedly? Had I surprised him in his shortcut around the house?
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Almanac for 2022-05-11
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