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Bluffs getting in time to take refuge from another storm. Saw one or two smaller birds and a large Red-tailed hawk presumably. Then I went home.
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September 5 Wednesday
This morning Art Rudy said that there was a "Wild Canary's" nest by thier house. Went up It turned out to an American goldfinche's nest. It was woven in the crotch of an Apple tree about an inch through
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and was about 5 feet up. It was in a Y crotch and was woven around the limbs. It was shaded from the sun on all sides by leaves. The nest was very clean. The female was on it when we approached. She slipped off the farther side and lit in a cornfield with a [[underlined]] per-chic o ree [[/underlined]]. It contained 3 young. Their crops were filled with food. The outside was composed of cobwebs, cornsilk, dandelion stems with [[macls?]], grass, sticks