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At a sand dank on the edge of these woods we found 
a pair of Phoebes. The female was collecting building material 
which she got on the ground and tried to place on a slend er, 
vi brating root under the bank, a futile task for the 
stems, etc. fell to the ground almost as soon as she left them 
and were added to a pile of similar material at the foot of 
the bank. This pile was as large as an average-sized Phoebe®s 
nest. The bird was probably a young one that had never before 
attempted to build a nest. 
Crossing the flooded meadows we next landed at the 
big pines in Bedford Swamp where we saw a Brown Thrasher, the 
first this season. It was silent and in dense oak scrubT] 
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