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Feb. 21, Wednesday
This morning before breakfast a little Male English Sparrow was chirping away on the side of the house.

A piece of siding had cracked and had been fixed again leaving in one place a hole that he could put his head into 

He chirped a while and then put his head in the hole and tried it pull off pieces so as to make it larger.

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Then he hopped further along and chirped again.

Then a female came down to examine the hole while he chirped at her. She seemed afraid and looked around anxiously. Then another female came down between the other two.

Then came the strangest part. The male fluffed out his feathers and gave a low note like [[wavy underline]]sē sē sē sē[[/wavy underline]] turning round and