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An old Red-head chased a young one around in a tree.  Saw a Spotted Sandpiper.  Following the river up I saw the family of Maryland Yellow throats in a potato field.
Then I went home.  
August 6. Monday.  
This morning before breakfast I was up by Carpenters when I saw the young Yellow-bellied Woodpecker again.  It was on a telephone post.  It was trying to dig a 
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hole in it.  It hit sideways and pulled but finally gave up in disgust.
Then it flew over by Stienbrink's and lit on a Norway Spruce.  It examined some old holes made for sap in an interested manner.
Then I went home.
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August 9 Thursday.
Heard a male Sparrow with a queer love-note this afternoon it was like the creak of a grindstone.