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My Column: State Line Hawk Watch
A view of State Line Lookout and the Hudson River beyond in Alpine. By Jim WrightSpecial to The Record |…
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Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs
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MM Mystery 090913 Revealed
A big thanks to Judy Collier for answering yesterday's mystery — Spittlebug secretion. Ya learn something new every day…
More on Spittlebugs here.
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The more you read about this bug, the more amazed you will be…
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And on the actual mystery post, I was going to write, “I think that’s just a glob of spit…” Now I see that answer actually would have been somewhat close, LOL!
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The more you read about this bug, the more amazed you will be…
Patrick Carney
And on the actual mystery post, I was going to write, “I think that’s just a glob of spit…” Now I see that answer actually would have been somewhat close, LOL!