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in circumference has floated into the pond.  It came in the night before the gate burst and has floated farther down with every heavy rain and is now not far from the gate.

This year we have found two Robbin's nests, one under the granery and the other in a small cedar in the bane and three cat-bird's nests, one in the forsythia by the gate another in the rose bushes opposite the cellar door and another near the lane.

Van Cleve found a bird's egg in one of the furrows when we were planting the sweet corn, it is not quite as large as a robbin's egg and more rounded, white spotted with brown.  We think that it may be a whippoorwill's egg.