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[[underlined]] Alder Swap [[/underlined]]

Flocks of chickadees & warblers find a rich supply of insects here & it would be a delectable place to study them - from some mossy stone or foot of a tree - but for the pest of mosquitoes that are quick to discover you & tormentingly persistent in taking advantage of the unexpected feast.
The chickadees pervade the place, apparently holding the flocks by their calls. Perhaps the note is one of such security - [[underlined]] chick-a-dee-dee [[/underlined]] - such home comfort that no one can be afraid. As you look up there is a chickadee hanging from a folded leaf busily extracting its possessor; there is another prying along the curl of a birch trunk [[image - pen line drawing of a tree trunk]] (where the bark has curled back); & still another hangs from the tip of a twig at work.
Redstarts give a flash of orange [[strikethrough]] fo [[/strikethrough]] as they drop down through the bushes in pursuit of an insect.
The place is full of the small insistant notes of fledgelings & the hurrying of hard worked parents, face flashing redstarts, systematic blk & white creepers followed around by dingy fuzzy youngsters, vireos, flycatchers

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