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Norway Spruces and flew against an elm limb full force [[strikethrough]] by [[/strikethrough]] on the way. It was quite light yet but he was a heavy sleeper.
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Mar. 9, Friday.
This morning I went over back of Mr. Fisk's. There was a flock of about 100 Redpolls there. One lit on the fence to look at me. They were feeding on pigweed

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a sudden noise would send them flying around only to light again at the same spot. I think that they have been shot at. I could hear their bills working plainly when they were 20 feet away. Sometimes they came up to within ten feet of me. They hopped. They would reach up as high as they could stretch for seeds. They seemed to be in a hurry