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July 27, Sunday 1913.

Rather close and oppressive in
town today and hot everywhere.
Went out on four-mile Run and
spent the days.  There are a good
many signs of fall in the air
now.  The grass is getting
brown and dry in many
localities and some of the trees
show the effect of the weather.

The Locusts are entirely brown
now from the ravages of
the Chrysomelid [[underlined]] Chalepus dorsalis [[/underlined]]
and are losing many of their
leaves.  They show up everywhere
about Washington as brown
patches on the hillsides.  Apparently
this does not hurt the trees however
as these outbreaks come periodically.

There is considerable activity
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many young are about.

A small band of Carolina
Chickadees was encountered twice
working quickly with soft notes
through the tops of the trees.  They
examined every crevice in the
limbs even crawling into curled
up rolls of bark and called
continually.

I watched them carefully for
warblers but the only one
accompanying them was a 
single Mniotilta varia.

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Two Ovenbirds were seen on
a bushy side hill.  They flew
up from the ground to low
perches.  They have stopped
singing within the last ten
days.

Two Flickers were flushed
from the ground among some pines
and flew from tree to tree
ahead of me.  Later they were
encountered on top of the hill
among some oaks.

Maryland Yellowthroats were
common and were feeding
young out of the nest.  They
scolded me sharply whenever
I intruded in their haunts.

A White-eyed Vireo gave
a rendition of his usual
song.  And was found hunting
actively through some brush!
One or two notes resembled those
of the English Sparrow.

Red-eyed Vireos were common but
were not singing a great deal.
They are molting now about
the head.

An Orchard Oriole came into
a tree near the old orchard and
began scolding and hopping
around energetically.  I collected
it and found that it was
an immature bird but old
enough to make a good skeleton.
Another was seen near Virginia