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9) home into / [[strikethrough]] woods [[/strikethrough]] timber.
[[strikethrough]] On our walks in / woods one[[/strikethrough]]
Protected as /ey are / woods w well populated x only by [[strikethrough]] so [[/strikethrough]] / small [[beasties?]] of / little feathered folk. In our walks ad / wdld circuit one season we ^[[discovd]] [[strikethrough]] fd [[/strikethrough]] 32 nests- [[insert]]^5+ / an we]] [[strikethrough]]/one[[/strikethrough]] fd ^[[w/fields &]] [[strikethrough]]out[[/strikethrough]] around / house & barns, the total count of / summer being 59 nests.

The commonest ones in / woods W /reco / R.C.V. One by one we discovd / em till at last [[strikethrough]]we be[[/strikethrough]] ^[[/ by numbered]] 7,& it seemed as if / silvery birch bark cradles w hung beside every path, of ^[[/ & so common]] [[strikethrough]] each w a welcome[[/strikethrough]] each new one ^ [[for us]]
[[strikethrough]] fd w in [[/strikethrough]] a thrill & pleasure as it took
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