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| A gusty windstorm downed a large maple tree on the back of our lovely house this evening on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. The main heavy trunk missed the house by inches and we apparently suffered very little damage. I'll be getting up on the roof in the morning to find out more. |
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| The sky turned a vibrant orange after the storm passed. |
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| A cranefly clings to a fern plant on a damp forested hillside near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Saturday, April 9, 2016. |
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| A wild blue-tailed skink pokes its head out of a crack in a tree stump as it hunts for insects on a hillside near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on Saturday, April 9, 2016. |
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| A family of what I think are Little Brown Bats are thriving in the bat box I built. The little creatures are insect eating machines. |
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| The bats nap during the day and hunt for bugs in the evening. |
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| A very small insect hangs in a dew drop encrusted spider web in a pasture along a country road near Roseburg in rural southwestern Oregon on Thursday, April 7, 2016. |
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| A dew covered beetle climbs on a strand of electric fence wire. |
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| A barred rock hen forages on a walkway strewn with a layer of fallen crabapple blossoms on Monday, April 4, 2016. The hen is part of a flock of backyard chickens on a farm near Elkton in rural Douglas County in southwestern Oregon. |
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| A western fence lizard, also know as a blue belly lizard, catching some some on a beautiful spring day in southwestern Oregon on Saturday, April 2, 2016. |
