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Common and hooded mergansers and American wigeons float about beneath lightly falling snow on one of the old mill ponds near Libby Creek at 5th Street Extension on Saturday, March 24, 2108. (John Blodgett/The Western News)

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Spring is for the birds
March 27, 2018 4 a.m.

Spring is for the birds

Bird activity has only recently increased in and around the old timber mill ponds where 5th Street Extension meets Libby Creek, with ice-covered waters a not-so-distant memory. Yet the light snow fall on Saturday suggested that Old Man Winter hasn’t quite left us.