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White-breasted Nuthatch catching winged ants.
They seemed to be experts and reminded me of huge bats. Even a Bluejay caught the fever and swept around one spread wings. Making a pair of chipmunks think that it was a hawk.
The first two named would fly out hover an instant on spread wings and then dive downward and rise to a perch like this [[sketch]].  The Myrtle Warblers were also catching ants. One flew after a large moth that was zigzagging about but

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missed. It gave an angry [[underline]]tchip [[/underline]]]]. An instant later the moths wings were shorn from its body by a yellow-belly and came floating to the ground. The Warblers generally lit with thier insects in thier bills.
A Chipping Sparrow found a worm and picked it up and dropped it several times before swallowing it. Saw a Downy Woodpecker and heard two Catbirds. Heard a Vesper Sparrow sing. It repeated the last part of the song twice - 3 Bronzed grackles