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May 30 - continued

In Trout lake valley















grasshopper sparrow Nests found:

eo s tern Red-winged blackbird, in sequence as
i-winged tlackbird found - 424031 4,

yellou-head ed blackbird Yellow-headed blackbird - 4 4.

blue-winged teal Virginia rail - 9 fresh, 7 incubated.

wn meadowlark gadwall 9.

Sennett 's nighthawk black kien (A

marsh hawk Am. jah rn- 4.

long-billed marsh wren. Forster's tern and pied-billed greb

black tern nesting, but nests not examined.

yellowthroat A nest of the American bittern with 4 eggs

black tern Was sia above water level, lined v i



SYassese
Nest of gadwall also was lined with
The nests of Virginia rail were line

Virginia rail
Am. bittern
swamp sparrow





radwell coarser grasses.

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pied-billed grebe Ye flushed a flock of 13 prairie chickens,

mallard and were able to note carefully here, as at Clear
billed gull Lake earlier in the day, that the species is defi-



-20 spp. Mitely the prairie chicken; not the sharp-tailed
grouse, which also occurs in this area.

yrairie chicken

On the way back to Stilwell's Ranch on Hackberry Lake

Bartramian sandpiper dove
kingbird wn vesper sparrow n/5 -4 spp.
May 31

Clear; air cold; north wind.





Boing & beet: No list of birds made.

of Forster's terns, near the north shore,

afforded the fol mber of pi recorded in sequence as found:
eis 2.3.3" 3 I 3 on old house of muskrat. Nests of

rushes, placed 4 to 6 inches above water; cup 1 inch deep, 5 inches across.
Black tern - 11; nests of similar construction and placement, shallower.
Yellowheaded blackbirds' nests numerous.
Saw ruddy ducks on Hackberry.




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Hackberry Lake in th
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Monahan's Lake in afternoon; no bird list. Found completed n
western lark sparrow.