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Creepers.  They have notes like [[underlined]] tsik tsik tsuk [[/underlined]].  There were about 25 Juncoes feeding on some Ragweed in an apple-orchard.
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This afternoon I went over across the river.  It was quite cold.  50° Fahr.  Saw no birds until I got to the end of Ravines.  There I saw 3 young Quail in a cornfield.  They flew a few feet and lit.  I tried to get to where I could watch them, but in doing so ran into the main flock.  There must have

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been 20 of them.  Followed them up.  Some of them were not fully grown.  [[underlined]] Their [[/underlined]] wings made no noise.  They went across the river.  Saw some Juncoes and Myrtle Warblers.  The young Juncoes were lighter.  They were quite tame.  They were eating A woodpecker flew by me with a low cueh cueh.  I thought it was a Flicker.  It looked rather small and as it lit nearby I looked at it through the glass.  It was a Red-bellied Woodpecker.  The first I