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David Walmark and I took a jaunt out and about today. Our grandest find was running into a nice group of warblers and other species at Clearland. This was along the rail trail there and there is a grape vine at this location which is loaded with the fruit. It has gone up a cedar tree which is about 30 feet high. This sort of thing is extremely rare to see here and this is the location where all of the bird species were centered about. For me this is the largest grape vine I have ever seen growing out in the wild. Warblers present were one black-throated green, a Nashville Warbler, an ovenbird, five Northern parulas, at least five chestnut-sided warblers, and American redstart, three black and white warblers and there were various other species with this group. Of note at the end of Second Peninsula were 88 barn swallows. The report for the record is a bird which unfortunately did not stay around. It visited the pond of a man at Camperdown who has a daughter who is a birder. I found out about it to late to make a trip to confirm it and no one else saw it but the man, so this is only for the record. The bird in question was supposedly a king rail. The description sounds good, so I would say that it was. Again this is only for the record or for interests sake. The Eastern Bluebird male had three of the youngsters lines up today on the shed roof and was feeding them suet. The fourth young bird fledged the nest box shortly after. James R. Hirtle Lunenburg
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