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Big Birds Bird song is one of the delights Ely offers, especially on early summer mornings when a chorus of sparrows, thrushes, and warblers of dozens of species musically announce dawn’s arrival. Ornithologists will tell you they
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Bald Eagle are protecting their nesting territory, but for anyone who has watched a bird sing for several minutes, pure joy seems to be part of it. There’s the trick—these little birds can be hard to spot, no matter how close they sound. For a novice bird
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