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jointly they would go to the ground and get a grasshopper and beat it a little on the stub and then give it to the young. They also caught insects on the wing. The young were too small to come to the opening. Looked in the tree that had the king bird's nest in last year. There was a nest in it but it had been robbed. It was a king bird's nest. The bottom was covered with egg shell. Climbed up to the Hairy Woodpecker's nest. It
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was about 25 feet from the ground in a maple. Found a Phoebe's nest in under a bank. It was fastened to it under the grass and contained 3 Phoebe's and 2 Cowbird's eggs. The old one flew down to the ground and went along it then she curved up to a branch. Took the Cowbird's eggs. In the woods I saw a family of White-breasted Nuthatches. The young did have black on their necks. They shook their wings and called [[underlined]] qvit qvit qvit [[/underlined]]