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[[underline]] 1950 [[/underline]]

5/13 - Rain most of yesterday & most of last night - dark morning - to woods 6:30 a.m. Home at 9:00 a.m., Sky heavily overcast until [[strikethrough]] ?? [[/strikethrough]] almost 8:00 a.m. Sun broke thru about 8:15. Light very poor earlier - have recorded only birds positively identified.
     Bay-Breasted - 1; Chestnut-sided, 30 - 40; Myrtle - none; Cape May - 1; Parulas - 6 - 10 or more; many Olive- Backed Thrushes; 2 Veeries - one near Beech Bend, one up Alongside R. R. track; half-dozen Magnolia Ws all but one male; half-dozen Redstarts, several Hooded; Saw [[underline]] one [[/underline]] Golden-Winged; two Blackburnians; Kentuckys - 2 (at least), several Bl. Thr. Greens & Bl. Thr. Blues; 2 - 3 Bl. & White; heard [[strikethrough]] Black-Thr. [[/strikethrough]] Blue-Winged singing; heard & saw several Blackpolls; one Yellow-Br. Chat seen close up on way back up track to car; heard several Rose Br. Grosbeaks - saw one; [[strikethrough]] 2 [[/strikethrough]] 3 Canada Warblers - 2 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]]; one female Baltimore Oriole; about 5:30 p.m. at home, as we sat in backyard, a male Orchard Oriole hunted in tallest pecan tree & in Paul's Scarlet, 15 feet from us; female Hooded W. in yard again; 2 Hummingbirds; 2 Broad Winged Hawks; many White Throats still here; several Red-Eyed Vireos, 2 White-Eyed; one Black-Billed Cuckoo; several Sc. Tanagers; Kingfisher; Acadian, Peewee, Phoebe, & Crested; Downy (1 [[female symbol]]), Flicker, Red-Belly - met Fuller, who says a Red-Head is nesting near his home.