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May 30, 1938 cont)
the birds.  Picked up Lowe & [[Stienes?]] and looked at the big warehouse at Kenmare.  Also the upper lake.  Saw a [[underline]] long eared owl [[/underline]] sitting on a nest.  Great flocks of [[underline]] sandpipers [[/underline]] on the big shallow lake.  Drove across to unit 41 in the upper Souris.  This is a beautiful area which is just newly flooded.  It should be a marvelous area in a few years.  The Mouse River park is just above water.  Someone blundered in raising the dam to the present height. Engineers.  Lots of duck and also lots of Clay Colored Sparrows.  Then to lower Souris to dike 357 which is just one mile south of the Canadian line.  Here a dike has backed water up over [[16?]] miles of the river channel & spread it out over the area in a beautiful maze of sloughs & ponds.  Lots & Lots of ducks.  Saw and killed a [[underline]] Bairds sparrow. [[/underline]] Saw five [[underline]] Marbled godwits & two [[Upland?]] Plover [[/underline]] here.  Also lots of [[underline]] clay colored sparrows. [[/underline]]  Then worked up the river to see the various projects & units.  I'd certainly like to see all these filled once.  What a marvelous area it would be. 
Found a [[underline]] Franklin Gull [[/underline]] in rosy plumage dead on the road.  Came back to headquarters and saw the nursery.  Too big & too expensive to operate.  Back to Minot where I skinned three birds & wrote notes until midnight.