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their heads and stood notionless until the alarm subsided. 
When we finally showed ourselves, the flock rose and flew 
off over Dakin's Hill hut they returned and pitched down into 
the meadow again a few minutes later. All the time we were 
here, the Bobolinks were making the meadow ring with their 
music and a Bittern was pumping in the distance. 
jjFwo Least Sandpipers were feeding with bhe Yellow- 
legs and on a mud-bar just above the Holt we found a flock 
of five small waders, of which at least three birds were 
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(The next two pages contain 
of the cabrnn, on May 18, — 
noted 
lists of birds seen within a mile 
396 birds of 79 different species 
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