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utterance, after each there was a pause. 
Then I heard a rose-hreasted grosbeak sing 
and hunted him up. 
By the swimming hole I saw three bank swallows. 
I went down the bank and saw where they had been 
digging a nesting hole. It was about tv/ice as 
wide as it was high. They flew close by me giving 
an alarm note like zweet . They were smaller than 
the other swallows. They were quite tame, as I 
was going to school a species of shorebird that 
I did not know flew over (Wilson’s snipe). 
Went fishing this afternoon. Saw the bank 
swal lows again. They were quite tame. Heard 
the evening grosbeaks. Saw the spotted sandpiper. 
Saw a bluejay getting the meat from acorns. 
Saw a white-breasted nuthatch pound a worm and 
then eat it. Then I went home. 
I was told t onight that the sparrows and 
martins had a fi^it over the bird house. 
April 28, IS00 - Saturday . 
This morning Jim Sedjey, Clarence hook and I 
went down across the river. We saw a barn 
swallow getting mud for its nest. It dug it out 
with its bill. Then filled its mouth and then 
flew off to Voll’s barn with it. 
Went on down by the bend, saw a quail. 
Heard a'tapping noise and saw a flicker 
chiselling out an old hole for his nest. It was 
the male. It was enlarging the entrance. He 
tapped along and then hopped up. 
A sparrow hawk gave a loud kilI-€tki11-d C 
kill-Q£ .and flew around with wings curved like a 
spotted sandpiper. The flicker stopped work when 
it heard it. 
Went on and found two red-headed woodpecker’s 
nest. Saw a song sparrow taking a bath. It 
dropped into the water between two logs and then 
