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and kept peering around the trunk at me as I crouched half hidden behind the thistles. My legs became to cramp and I shifted my position slightly. At this he flew away calling excitedly and would not come back.

I hid in a corn shock to watch the jays but one saw me just before it lit and they all kept on the farther side.

In a plowed field nearby I could hear a number of Prairie Horned Larks. I came slowly upwind in their direction I expected to find them on a sheltered south slope but in

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reality they were out on the windswept flat. They were very tame and kept flying just a few feet off before I could distinguish them from the ground. They always turned their backs as I approached and so were near indistinguishable from the dirt. I identified about 6 Horned Larks but about 40 of the cone Prairie species. They all had about the same habits. If any other flew around the others watched them closely and at times crouched as though to join them. They were widely spread though generally one or two or more fed