7/7 
W hippoorwills 
and uttering a scolding tcha - a-a. I do not hear the phen 
which my birds with young at Ball's Hill gave so often. 
As I pass Clark's, two Whippoorwills are singing, 
one in the fields to the west, the other in an orchard very 
near me. The latter ceases and immediately afterwards I 
hear a low Quip repeated a number of times and answered by 
another bird in the back part of the orchard. Is this a call 
of the Whippoorwill? I do not remember ever hearing it before 
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