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May 15,1951 - Tuesday
About 7:00P.M (E.D.T) & heard the repeated "peevt" [[?]] calls of a [[underline]] Nighthawk [[/underline]] somewhere above 3rd or 4th street apparently. I could not locate the bird from my back yard, though unmistakeable. 

May 16, 1951 - Wed.
Left home 6:15 a.m. (on leave today & tomorrow) - to Glen Carlyn [[?]] - arriving about 6:25. Heard and/or saw these during walk (6:25-8:35) One solitary Sandpiper at Dark Pool(probably second one there also), Swifts, Flickers [[? good guess?]] (3-4), one Downy, Kingbirds, Crested Flycatchers(2), Acadian Flycatcher? (grayish underneath, eye ring faint- if at all- fluffy wing bars, lower mandible horn color - call "squee - gee - reff" - almost snapping head off at each call) , Peewees(3-4), Purple Martins, Jays, Crows(15-20), Chickadees(2-3), Titmice(2-3), Nuthatch(1), House Wrens(3-4), Carolina Wren(2)