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average. The song was [[squiggly underline]]chit chit chit chit chit swee swee swee or chi chi chi [[/squiggly underline]]. The last three syllables were sometimes trilled.

Heard a Brown Thrasher singing. Saw half a dozen male goldfinches pursuing a female. They went where ever she did singing and occassionally having a lilt in the air.

Then I went home.
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After breakfast I went over in to Hacketts woods. Heard several Wood Peewes. It was warm and sunny. Wood Thrushes were very 

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common. One gave a note like [[squiggly underline]] [[?ticky ticky tick]][[/squiggly underline]]. It was a queer sound. Their song was [[squiggly underline]][[?]] away[[/squiggly underline]] Heard a Black-throated green warbler singing. Scared up a Barred Owl and followed it around. It was quite tame.

There were quite a number of Yellow-bellied Woodpeckers here. Then I went home.
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This afternoon I went over to the Hemlock Bluffs. The Warbling Vireos are back to the trees in Ristan's pasture. There was nothing in