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and visits other feeders all over this vicinity. We have not been able 
to learn whether this bird escaped or was liberated from the loft of 
some nearby bird fancier, but all of us enjoy its friendly, gentle nature 
and its mournful calls. 
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SOME BIRD OBSERVATIONS — 1963 
By Elton Fawks 
CARDINAL AND HOUSE WREN — July 25, 1963 — A reliable observer 
reported a Cardinal and a House Wren nest just five feet apart. A few days 
later the wrens were seen feeding the young Cardinal. This continued 
for two weeks. The wrens did not hatch their eggs. They fed the Cardinal 
about three times to each feeding by the parent birds. I was able to observe 
this once. Only one young Cardinal hatched. I did not see any fighting 
among the birds. 
PARASITIC JAEGER — Dec. 6, 1963 — Driving along Route 80, which 
runs beside the Mississippi river near Rapid City, Ill., I saw a black bird, 
crow size, with white upper wing flashings, chasing a gull, twisting and 
turning as it flew. When I was able to pull off the road for a better look, 
the bird had disappeared. However, half an hour later, parked on a drive 
beside the road, I saw the same performance at a distance of less than 
one block. The bird was nearly black, with white flashings on the upper 
wings. It was definitely a dark, immature Parasitic Jaeger. A week earlier 
I had noticed a dark bird chasing the gulls as I drove by, but at that time 
I had only a glance, and as the bird did not twist and turn. I had assumed 
it to be a crow. The jaeger was seen several times by most of the local 
birders on the 7th and 8th of December. At no time did I see elongated 
central tail feathers. I believe this bird was also seen on December 11. 
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