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May 7 - D.C.
43
Wild birds seen or heard, with
certainty, were: Common Crow
(about 12); Purple Grackle (fully
20); Rough-winged Swallows (3);
Hickory (3 heard); Wood Thrush
(at least 6); Wood Peewee (one,
with pee-a-pee note high-pitched and
plaintive -- nothing like western bird);
Catbird (about 12); Cardinal (fully 10);
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (one heard);
Song Sparrows (about 5); Yellowthroat
(about 5 males); Black-throated
Blue Warbler (one & close by);
Chestnut-sided Warbler (at least
6, one male within a few feet);
Black-poll Warbler (about 4, song
just as I heard it on the Kowalk
in 1899); Blackburnian Warbler(1);
Red-eyed Vireo (at least 6);
English Sparrow (hordes).
I
should say that birds were here