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  • Another Macon subdivision, more unhappy lot owners

    Another Macon subdivision, more unhappy lot owners Not long ago Kristina and Bruce Oliver invited a local couple they’d met in nearby Franklin to come play cards with them at their newly constructed house in Diamond Falls Estates. The phone rang about the time the visitors were expected to arrive at the subdivision, a 285-acre development in the Cartoogechaye area of Macon County bordered on three sides by the Nantahala National Forest. The local couple apologized and said they’d misunderstood the Olivers’ directions. They had driven somewhere…

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  • Pileated woodpeckers a mainstay in the mountains

    Pileated woodpeckers a mainstay in the mountains The tapping of pileateds ... means attachment to a nest site and attachment of the members of a pair to each other . . . When one pair of pileateds is especially excited about meeting its mate, it bends its head and bill far back, waving them back and forth in an arc of 45-degrees as it jerks its whole body in what I call a ‘bill-waving dance.’ Thus, they keep their pair bonds strong with small ceremonies. — Lawrence…

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