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tasty tit-bit. I found a nest of young Thrushes and Blackbirds 

 within a yard of one another to-day in a Hornbeam hedge. What 

 stumpy fledglings the Blackbirds are, compared with the Thrushes. 

 Four Hedge Sparrow's eggs found sitting hard, also House Sparrows, 

 and two or three incomplete Common Wren's nests. Watched a 

 small colony of Sand Martins, and some Swifts, careering round and 

 about a small lake. How delicate the mouse-coloured back of the 

 little Martin, and what a large bird the Swift is by the side of it; but 



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they are not members ot the same family, as is supposed, so I ought 

 not to make that observation, perhaps. The flight of the Sand 

 Martin is rapid, and uniform; at least, that is how it strikes me. 

 Pied Wagtail by the water's edge, also House Martin gathering mud. 

 Male Chaffinch heard "weeping" like the female. I saw the bird. 

 Saw two or three pairs of Carrion Crows hawking about some fields 



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