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went out hunting this forenoon and saw a flock of Bob-whites. The were quite tame thier wings did not make so loud a noise as a partridge's. I came to the place where I saw the grosbeak's last year. It was full of old stubs. Woodpeckers, chicadee's, and nuthach's were [[underlined]] thick [[/underlined]]. The woodpeckers were all male Hairy and 

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Downy. saw a brown creeper. It braced with its tail it went up a tree with a rocking motion very peculiar. it never stopped an instant but when it got to the branches of one tree it would go to another. saw and heard one woodpecker that puzzles me. I have heard it often. It has a loud nasal note like [[underlined]] kaow kaow kaow [[/underlined]] Red-bellied Woodpecker