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give a rattling note like [[underlined]] kir-r-r-ruck ki-o-kuk [[/underlined]] several times.
crossing the river as I approach an elm a bird flys out.  It is the Yellow Rumped or Myrtle Warbler.  Its underparts are yellowish-white, sides are streaked with black, rump bright yellow.  wings streaked with brown and framed with white.  The tail is rather long underside white the corners black.  It is nearly square like this [[image - drawing of underside of tail]].  flight is tippy.  The rump is conspicuous when flying.  It made sallies after insects and picked

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of the leaves.  it was very restless.  Its note was a sharp [[underlined]] chit [[/underlined]].  when it finally flew way off it dodged back and forth after insects.
on a dead tree near the ravine I saw a young Red-Headed Woodpecker.  It would give a note like [[underlined]] ker-r-r-ruck [[/underlined]] dodging back at the end of it.  a little while after I saw this same woodpecker get an acorn off from a tree and fly off with he seemed to be storing them for winter twice he took them to a stub and once