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A Virginia Rail jumped up and flew a short distance with hanging feet. When it lit it ran quickly into the grass and hid. 

Song sparrows flew up out of little patches of dried grass. They were hard to catch sight of after they lit as they skulked so. Across from the Hemlocks I heard a nasal [[underline]]nack nack nack[[/underline]] and looking up saw a Red-breasted Nuthatch in the top of an elm. There must be quite a movement among them as I have seen two today and only one other all the spring.

Saw a female Palm Warbler but did not recognise it at first. They was a flock of about twenty-five or thirty feeding in the short grass here. They are more common

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this year than ever before. They occasionally gave notes like [[underline]] tsu [[/underline]] and [[underline]] tsit [[/underline]] besides the sharper note.

A Kingfisher flew by with something dark held lengthwise in his bill. By the time I got the glass up it was past. It went straight down to skunk Rocks. That Chicadee's nest in Dickie's pasture was deserted for it was full of Cobwebs.

Saw a dozen or more Juncoes across the river. There were one or two males with them. I drove them all the way from Skunk Rocks to the Hemlocks. They would fly a short distance wait until I was upon them and then fly again. If I had not kept close watch I might have