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It gave a note like skurii. I let it go.
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June 17, Sunday.
This morning when I went out to the barn a Chimney Swift started in but stopped. The male Barn Swallow is getting a mate. He goes inside and calls and the females go in.
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Last night Jim Seeley and I looked down Georges' chimney. About 10 feet from the top was a nest with 5 white eggs in it, they
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were rather long. Got a sparrows egg that was nearly round out of Hackett's block yesterday afternoon.
This afternoon I went down across the river. Saw some young English Sparrows by the mill out of the nest. Found a Warbling Vireo's nest with nearly fledged young in it by the first elm from the bridge. They were very noisy. One gave the alarmnote of the old ones. the note was as