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Titmouse can sound quick warning. But I like best to think - & I suspect it is the truth - they like to go about with merry Penthestes. In any case, when you hear his call - if warblers are your quest - drop your work or play & look. - And look [[underline]] hard [[/underline]]. Watch for each flutter in the treetop, each flash of color in the air. Listen for each small voice. The metallic clicking pears to be the young black & white creeper. A young blackburvians found the little hemlock in front of the tent & crept on its branches as if very much at home, while a Parula was briskly going about. Now on the ground, now on a stump, now on the side of a brake. (See Haliaeetus leucocephalus) just below camp - would have been in sight from tent. (Aug 22) Saw a shadow on the water & hurried to the edge of my platform - rattle & dash - a kingfisher! The loud trill of the pine warbler over the tent in mid July soon stops. The ^[[insertion]] 4.30 am [[/insertion]] song (see water thrush S.N.) ceases after a while. The grosbeak [[underline]] eek [[/underline]] - a family of young (see notes) See [[underlined]] Gavia immer. [[/underlined]] Was it a screech owl in the night? Sleep {dulled obliterated the record. Nuthatch on side of tree trunk. [[end page]] [[start page]] 94
Transcription Notes:
Book was upside down, as evidenced by page number being upside down.
Siobhan - you don't need to start a page with [[start page]] nor finish a page with [[end page]] except where moving from one page to the next in one image. See blue help tab to right.
"eek" is correct.
Penthestes = syn. for black capped chickadees