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seeds.  It kept up a double noted chip-chip like a chipping sparrows.  It flew away showing its white tail feathers.  I think it was a male because it was very dark and strikingly marked.  It gave one note like bell like [[underlined]] too-too [[/underlined]].  I think this is one of our nicest winter birds we have coming around the house in flocks of [[50?]] and you see it in the woods 

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in flocks of from 6 to 50.  
Oct. 22, Sunday
Went down in Tim Hacketts across the river.  Saw a scattering flock of about 75 Juncos feeding in a field.  When on the ground their colors matched so well that they could hardly be seen.  Saw a few nuthatches and thought I saw an owl but it proved to be a large stick.  Coming back I heard