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must have risen and gone on to the half Moon.

I returned now to my Wood Pewees or rather they returned to me for they had followed me to a grove of Black Ash trees. They caught their food with a loud snap of the bill. The young ones kept up their soft notes continually.

Two Bluejays flew out of the grove and called loudly at the sight of me. I thought the other birds would be alarmed by them but they were not.
 
Woodpeckers were well

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represented. A Yellow-bellied pecked notes in a red maple to get at the sap. It was a young one and was silent. Two Flickers [[underlined]]wick-a[[/underlined]]d at each other in the same trees. One flew when it saw me. A Downy and a Hairy both females pecked the trees and the last named called loudly.

Saw a Red-eyed Vireo eat a few elder berries in the same bush with two Robins. One of these Robins was a young one and it kept up the feeding note as it pecked at the