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Long-billed Marsh Wren (con.)

Blue-winged Teal
Black Duck

Swamp Sparrow

Savanna Sparrow

Savanna Sparrow

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while I examined its nest and acted as they do when they have eggs or young. I am sure that these nests were built in the fall as I explored the marsh thoroughly in the summer and did not find them.

About twenty-five Ducks flew out of the marsh but we got none of them. Three Blue-winged Teal flew past a flock of Black Ducks as if they were standing still.

Swamp Sparrows were thick they scolded us vigorously from the shelter of the bushes. They were all in fine plumage.

In the afternoon I went down and secured two more Savanna Sparrows. They were numbers of them in the place but I found great difficulty in flushing them. They gave faint tsips. A train came by and they began to fly up. It was almost impossible to watch them. As soon as they saw that they were observed they flew.

September 25 Sunday.

This morning after breakfast I went over in Petske's Marsh again. Saw a number of Savannah Sparrows. They were found mostly in patches of weeds. I scared one out and it lit on a fence and scolded me with sharp, vigorous, tsips, turning and bobbing up and down for about five minutes and then flew low into the short grass which stood in a couple of inches of water. It was very sly and mouselike in its habits and frequently it would appear several feet from where I saw it last. It put its head low down and almost crept along.