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the ground. It made climbing hard. Back in the woods I saw some strange tracks. They were of shape of snow shoes and where the snow was deep there were lines along side. I followed them around for some time. There were lots of them and they kept crossing and recrossing in all directions. A large male Ruffed Grouse finally flew up in front of me and I knew what the tracks were The lines were where its wings had touched. A hollow
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place with old tracks leading in and new ones out marked where it had spent the night. There must have been quite a flock of them near. I started this one up again and saw where it had squatted down to spring into the air and its wings had touched the snow while starting.
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This afternoon I went down in the fields In Maines woods I saw some Tree Sparrows. I watched them for awhile. My eye caught
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