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It allowed me to approach quite close so long as I was quiet but it was difficult to keep track of it as the leaves were out on the bushes. Once or twice it slipped away without my seeing it and at last I lost it entirely.

May 5, Tuesday

Tonight after school I went up in the Crow woods across from the graveyard and stopped on the way at the gravel pit. Near Hoags I heard a thin rapid nasal [[underlined]] eck-a eck-a eck-a eck-a [[/underlined]] and saw a Red-breasted Nuthatch running around on the top limbs of tree and scolding like S. Carolininsis. Another was 

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hunting silently through another tree not far off. It was silent but active. It twisted and zigzagged over and under the branches probing the bark in the usual Nuthatch manner. I think that the one Sun March 15 was a straggler and that the true migration is taking place now.

Baltimore Orioles are very common now. I can at nearly any time hear a musical callnote like [[underlined]] tick-eater [[/underlined]]. Occasionally on sings [[underlined]] Whuty whur whee whuur whuur [[/underlined]] or [[underlined]] whuty whuur whuur whoit whoit [[/underlined]] . They hunt through the half opened foliage and keep rather high up. I hear them oftener than I see them.

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Reviewed. Removed a double "the" in the May 5th entry. Think its ready to complete. -@siobhanleachman