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in plain sight and sat there looking around. I worked around until I could see it and watched it for a while.

Heard the song of the Golden winged Warbler and a male White-throated Sparrow flew up from the ground. Yellow billed Cuckoo's were heard calling and I saw one.

At home as I sat on the porch resting I heard a great commotion among the English Sparrows and looking around saw a Cooper Hawk about 200 feet up it came from the hill above town and went over to Hackett's grove where it dropped straight as a 

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plummet onto an unfortunate chicken and carried it off through the trees.

This afternoon I went over to the hawk Creek valley. Found a Catbird's nest with four eggs in it and started to collect it but broke one, a fresh one and put the others back.

Saw the flight song of the Maryland Yellowthroat once and that of the Ovenbird several times. The latter gave fragments of the common song with its more inspired note.

Two Chicadees full grown were feeding from the brush and fallen trees. One fluttered it wings as if begging for