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Bluejay    

Green-winged Teal

Pied-billed Grebe 

Black Duck
  
Mallard  

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went back along the river.  Bluejays were common and noisy as is usual at this time.  They frequently flew long distances rather high up, calling loudly and going slowly.
Came up over the top of a bank and a flock of green-winged teal flew from a mud-bank and after dragging their feet lit in the middle of the river.  There were nine of them and bunching in a close flock they began to swim down-stream   They were very pretty and went quite rapidly.  I went after a gun but when I got back I could not find them.  The mud-bank was all marked up with their tracks.  I went down nearly to the Railroad Bridge watching carefully, looked behind me once and saw a Pied-billed Grebe sitting in the water.  It had evidently hidden while I passed  I went back and it sank slowly out of sight of sight,  several times it came up close by.  When it dove it sometimes turned around under the water and so fooled me.  Once it came up close to shore and just stuck its head out.  I thought maybe it was a stick but when I looked again it was gone.  Several times I saw it just stick its bill out while underneath.  It generally sank down slowly.
Farther up I scared up three ducks from under a Basswood  They flew towards me with upright bodies and outstretched necks and then flew up the river  one gave a loud [[underlined]] quark [[underlined]].  I think they were Black Ducks.
Next another duck flew up out from the grass along