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9/12/53
Sat out one shower on the Peacock's screened porch, having coffee and fried ham on rye, while watching robins, towhees and others in dogwood trees, and listened to a [[underlined]] Least Flycatcher [[/underlined]] beside house.
Temp. was 65-70 degrees throughout. Saw these birds:
Osprey (1), Mourning Dove (1), Hummingbird (2) near old orchard beyond Rule's; Flicker; Red-bellied Woodpecker in bird bath at elder Mrs. Rule's; Downy Woodpecker; Least Flycatcher (1 calling beside Peacock's); Blue Jays (number); Crows (several); Chickadees, Titmice, House Wren (1); Carolina Wren; Mocking Bird (several) Catbirds (2); Brown Thrashers everywhere about field grown in tall weeds, next to Mrs. Rule's (elder) - 6 were