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In the woods I scared up half a dozen Juncoes. They were all females and went up into the tops of the trees in the sun.

Heard the song of a Rose-breasted Grosbeak and afterwards saw it feeding in the top of an elm.

There were several Chewinks in the brushpile by the railroad bridge. They called and sang for quite a while and did not seem as timid as usual.

Louisiana Water Thrushes flew up and sat in the trees to sing about thirty feet from the ground. One started to sing before it lit. After singing a dozen times or so they went back to their feeding.

Watched a Water Thrush

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feeding in a ditch for a time. It waded along in the shallow water and tipped its tail so that occasionally it touched the water when it flirted it and shook the drops off that clung to it. It found a small angle-worm and held in its billed and walked around with as though it did not know what to do with it. Then it shook it sideways and broke it up into small pieces which it ate.

I saw Myrtle Warblers ahead clinging to the sides of trees head down or fluttering up them for a short distance and searching for insects in the cracks. These birds were very thick.
Then I saw two Blackburnian Warblers and followed them in

Transcription Notes:
"Angle- worm" has been written over another word.