Field notes, v1670
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Strong. 1921. Krieger Valley, 133. The Magnolia Warbler seem especially curious and almost light of one arm or hat. Saw many Chidracles in the poplars, Caught one spawning Molly Garden over by the Swedes, the river greedingly supplying us with Jay's meal to eat. Mr. S worth shot a Muskrat today, Phoebe and a Say Choole, the latter being the first we have seen here altho found North on the Stillins commonly. The Chules were very musical tonight altho the young owls like the young Red Tails have very shrill and immature voices! The deep Hoo-o! hoo-o! of the call being occasionally replaced by a shriller, Horned Owls tu-who! Who-tu-who! Whether this hooting is due to the individual, or is a regular part of the call I am not certain. We watched one Owl, fairly close on the top of a Spruce, hooting and as usual he ducked away low, threw his tail high in the air like a Winter Wren, and got out his call, without pumping as some of them do. For so solemn and dignified a bird, such a clumsious and absurd method of calling seems uncongenius to say the least. Got a whig shot at one but in the chock lost the bird, whether he was badly hit I could not tell. Put up a small pole with a no. 1 trap on it in the field today. Weds. Aug. 29. Cloudy. Went on long hunt down the river and into the talle below here. Saw practically