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A short eared owl flew up from a marshy place and went alternately sailing and flapping off across the flats rising quite high in the air. Saw True and Song Sparrows at the marshes and there were many juncos feeding in yards in the town of Bennings[[?]]. Three Red-winged Blackbirds flew over from the north. It was cold and raw all day. dug around in old leaves for insects. Collected Diptera 1 Chironomid; [[strikethrough]] Collembold [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Collembola [[/underlined]] 2 spec. [[underlined]] Coleoptera [[/underlined]]. Chrysomelidae [[underlined]] Typophorus canellus, OEdionychis quercata [[/underlined]]. 1 Cerambycid and a species of Dytiscid all hibernating. Saw one Herring gull. March 3, Monday. Purple grackles common in the department grounds today. Males pursuing the females and singing loudly in spite of cold rain wind. March 9, Sunday. This afternoon was out at Woodridge and went with Kalmbach over to the crow roost. Heard Cardinals and Song Sparrows singing clearly and [[end page]] [[start page]] frogs were calling from damp places. The crow roost was in a patch of timber mainly below the crest of a hill and the great numbers of crows present here was attested by their droppings and thousands of pellets. These are usually about an inch long and oblong oval in shape being [[strikethrough]] closely [[/strikethrough]] firmly packed together. They are made up of undigested matter which is regurgitated. From about a pint of pellets we examined we identified the following, bits of crayfish, small land and salt water shells, gravel, coal, slag from an ash heap, the jaw and scales of a fish, seeds of Hackberry, poison ivy, 2 species of sumach, [[underlined]] Polygonum arifolium [[/underlined]], [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] gum tree and [[underlined]] Cornus [[/underlined]]. About five a few crows came in but the greater number have now left for the north. They came flying over from the north west going on over to the Eastern branch first and then returning. Fifty or more sit in a tree on the crest of the hill and cawed and croaked among themselves. Others came flying in descending swiftly in spiral glide at times dropping