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of a quarter of a mile it must have been enormous nearby. As it started to drop a Bluejay whistled the single alarm note [[underlined]]Pirk Putter[[/underlined]] and every bird within sight instantly froze.

Here by the bridge I heard my first Bluebirds. Altogether I saw and heard about a dozen. They were all on the wing and gave both fall note and song.

Occasionally during the forenoon flocks of Evening Grosbeaks passed over high up going due north. They were very noisy but were hard to locate.

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Saw a single Rusty Blackbird flying over so high that I could just barely see it. It is hard to find birds that are at any height in the air as the eye is not easily focussed for them.

Crows were thick. They sat around in the trees calling or flew across the sky singly or in pairs. One flew up towards my from Dahlke's marsh and lit about ten rods off. It lifted its wings suspiciously  and finally flew off. When they called on the wing they sailed while giving some notes. One sailed with set wings from Weinke's hill to the Hemlocks in

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Bird sounds are my best guess.