Month: January 2025

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I woke up last Monday morning and found my world blanketed with snow. Outside my window, I saw dozens of house sparrows mobbing the neighbor’s bird feeder. These birds are aggressive and disorderly on a good day, and the snow seemed to have sent them into overdrive. Six inches of powder had covered up their…