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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

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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