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My attention was attracted by a long [[underlined]] se - e - e - ek [[/underlined]] They are little brown birds almost indistinguishable from the bark if they would keep still but they keep moving and jerking up a tree until they reach the bigger branches when off they fly to another. On the trees and also when flying they gave a note like [[underlined]] tsik tsik tsik [[/underlined]] repeated 
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quite rapidly. Their flight would puzzle a hunter were they big as much as a Wilson's Snipe. They go bobbing and twitching along suddenly changing their course and then suddenly lighting where you least expect it. 
Then we went home. 

Jan 18 Thursday
Went out to the barn