Flower Hill Farm Retreat https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com B&B, Retreat, Vacation Rental Flower Hill Farm in Williamsburg MA Western Mass 20 minutes outside of Northampton MA 413-268-7481 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 03:24:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.15 183435305 Beauties of the Night ~ Barred Owl https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/beauties-night-barred-owl/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beauties-night-barred-owl https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/beauties-night-barred-owl/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:59:21 +0000 https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/?p=6351 Barred Owls, Strix varia, may have been howling and hooting as year-round residents of this hillside in Western Massachusetts for more than 11,000 years. Fossils of their species, that many years old, have been uncovered in Florida, Tennessee and as far north as Ontario. These raptors of night are typically hidden in layers of darkness […]

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