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376. Chordeiles virginianus

Solitary Sandpiper.
Spotted Sandpiper.

Pied-billed Grebe.

Great Blue Heron & [[arrow pointing between these two species]]
Green Heron

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[[strikethrough]] 376. Coccyzus erythrophthalmus A. Wetmore. Millpond. North Freedom, Wis, iris brown. ring around lids red. space below eye greenish. above reddish. maxilla & tip of mandible black. rest of bill slate tarsus bluish slate. Length 11 wing 5 3/8 tail 5 7/8 stomach contents. [[/strikethrough]]

376. Chordeiles virginianus. A. Wetmore, Doherty's field, North Freedom, Wis, iris brown, bill black. tarsus blackish barred with white. Length 9 1/4 wing 7 7/8 tail 4 3/8 [[male symbol]] im. stomach contents. empty.

This morning after breakfast I went over to the Millpond. It was chilly but the day was clear. Saw one Solitary and a Spotted Sandpiper and heard another of the former. 

A Hanger's point I saw a Grebe swimming out of a little bay. I went down there and it dove.  I ran ahead and sat down by some flood trash. It came up just a few feet off and started to swim away. It nodded its head back and forth with a dove-like motion. Once it stood cleared up out of the water and shook out its feathers and settled them. When it turned its head away I shot and got it. It was a Pied-billed. I saw another farther off but could not find it afterwards. This ones stomach was full of feathers which it had picked out of its own body. 

Saw a Great Blue and a Green Heron.  In the evening a Green Heron flew over town.