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Towhees, Wood Thrushes, Maryland Yellowthroats, White-throated Sparrows, etc., etc.
  The area on the right bank of Honeysuckle Stream - once a wonderful damp thicket of honeysuckle, cat-briars and other undergrowth, interspersed with small trees and May Apples, is all destroyed.  Even the beautiful Fringe Tree (Chionanthus Virginica) [[left margin]] 10-12' [[/left margin]] with the Coral Honeysuckle climbing through it, is gone - just bare ground and the larger trees. Here I could always find (in season) Winter Wrens, Hermit Thrushes, Wood Thrushes, Oven-Birds, Louisiana Water Thrushes, White-Throated Sparrows, Kentucky warblers, and so on. The Dark Pool, where I saw the Sandpipers (Solitary & Spotted) often, rarely the Wood Ducks, and always found many birds near the stand of Great Ragweed, has all been filled in with fill dirt - even the undergrowth