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Last evening our daughter came running into the house. “Mom, Dad! Come look!” We went outside to find thousands (it must have been!) of birds lining the electric wires for as far as we could see. I watched my daughter’s face in between snapping pictures. There is something incredible about the way birds migrate, in…
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