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walked along the bank, where we had seen the two turtles 
and found one on the bank.  I had gotten very close to it,
when it heard or saw me and at once got into the water, I
reached him with my stick, but could not hold him.

Near these ponds we noticed  several large Poison Sumachs,
one <s>was</s> had a stem fully five inches in diameter and was very
tree-like in proportions.

We now left the ponds, in which by the way, no frogs'
eggs were to be found and went in the direction of Marley
Rd., cutting through the woods on reaching the Annapolis
Rd.  In this little stretch of woods we noticed quite a number
of beautiful blue birds.  Several of them alighted in favorable
positions for examination and were found to have blue,
deep sky blue, backs and wings, the under part of the body
was gray and on the breast was a reddish brown blotch.

On Marley R'd. we stopped at the pond where the
great lot of frogs were seen 2 weeks ago, hoping to find it full of their eggs.
Not an egg-sac was to be found.  Here a few Maples
were noticed with their buds greatly swollen and showing the
stamen, which were still very small and nowhere near open.
        