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This high flight struck me as rather peculiar.

Their tracks ran along logs as though they delighted to walk them.
The only other birds seen all day were two Bluejays who gave a warning call to two deer which lay in a thicket. We stopped dead still but they went out on the other side.

There are a few English Sparrows around. They stay in barn and are hard to approach as they have been shot at. When scared up they generally fly over to the next farm.

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December.

December, 7, Sunday.

This morning it was dull and cloudy with a rather brisk west wind. The ground was covered with nearly a foot of snow and in the woods it was kneedeep. I went down through the swimming hole woods. Saw where the Snails had been feeding in a cornfield. The tracks led into the woods. The thickets of hazel and prickly ash were bent down and formed little covered bowers under which the tracks were very thick. In one place I saw the large snowshoe tracks

Transcription Notes:
"Snails" unlikely to be "feeding" in a cornfield in winter. Couldn't find a corn-eating bird with simlar name other than a raptor "Snail Kite" that eats snails.