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January 12, Saturday. 
This morning about 10 oclock an immense Snowy Owl flew over the house. It was a cloudy morning. Its wings appeared pure white. It flew with a flapping motion. It was going south west. 
Went down in the fields. Walked out on the diving board above the river. Heard some Quail calling down below me. They were talking to each other. They had just come off the roost. When they 
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saw me they flew. They had roosted under the scanty protection of a willow. The whole 15 covered a very small place. 
Then I went home. 
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January 13, Sunday. 
This morning I went down in Seeley's Marsh. Tracked a flock of Quail. Sometimes they spread far out and again all went in a path a foot wide. They scratched under weeds for the seeds. Then I went home. 
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