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They sang a little "but stopped, immediately upon 
% approach. 
Caught a few broken notes of the song of the 
white-eyed vireo and following it up caught a 
short glimpse of the bird itself. 
%rtle warblers in flying through the trees 
sometimes gave a note like swees. 
Heard and saw several redstarts. It was 
rather hard to find them by their songs. 
Crossed the track and found a red-bellied 
Woodpecker at work on its nest. It acted very 
snxious and followed me up for a ways. 
Saw a number of white-breasted nuthatches and 
hnted for their nests without success. The 
^les sang a little. 
By Patterson's I looked in a hollow post and 
here was a bluebird on its nest. She looked 
8 jraight up at me for a minute and then I went on 
without disturbing her. A pair are thinking of 
Gilding in one of my bird boxes. The female gave 
a note like chut . 
A red-breasted nuthatch came hunting through 
°hr back yard as I was writing. The light v.as in 
eyes but it looked so small that I knew it and 
he glass showed up the colors. It found a grub 
n t*he maple and settled down with its head straight 
®ht for a minute and then flying to an elm jammed 
^ in a crevice and ate it. It was female. It kept 
a low ick ick all the time. 
A male downy woodpecker still comes to the suet 
h the maple. Re looked rather ragged and is very 
Vuet although he is not frightened by any one going 
I hardly knew when he came or went. 
A chestnut-sided warbler gave a song like sweet 
-jw get sweet sweet swee-swee shur the last three" 
being given quickly with a rising inflection, 
he first part was something like a yellow warbler. 
It 
After dinner I started for the hemlock bluffs. 
was warm and looked like rain. 
Noticed that the male purple martin has a 
^Sle small white feather at the bend of his left 
