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the outside. I saw one female get a grub as large as a lead pencil and 1 1/2 inches long. It was only by repeated efforts that it could swallow it. It would draw its neck in and then stretch it out in the effort. They came within 4 feet of us. The Chicadees fearlessly went into the cracks and went in and out between our feet. One lit on Mat's head. 
Saw a number of Tree Sparrows. They 
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were rather wild. Then we went home. 
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January 6, Sunday. 
This afternoon I went over below Sprouls again. Saw two white-breasted Nuthatches talking fight to each other. They ran up and down the tree and called excitedly to each other. 
Heard another giving the spring song. Then I went home. 
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