THE OOLOGIST 



and as we had put in a hard day we 

 were soon in bed and asleep. 



Xotwitlistanding our hard trip of 

 yesterday we felt rested and ready 

 for a good day's work and started out 

 early. Not far from camp I found a 

 nest of the Kinglet with seven fresh 

 eggs in a Tamarack, about eight feet 

 from the ground. The bird flew from 

 the nest as I rapped on the tree and 

 made no demonstration as the set was 

 collected. Several Juncoes with small 

 young were found and a number of 

 Robins and Chipping Sparrows, and in 

 a small Tamarack a nest of the White- 

 crowned Sparrow with badly incubat- 

 ed eggs was located. While walking 

 down a small stream I flushed a 

 Mountain Song Sparrow from a nest 

 on the ground under a willow, and 

 found a set of five fresh eggs. In 

 the willows along the creek we saw 

 a number of Traills Flycatchers, but 

 at this date they were not nesting. 



A nest and five eggs of the Yellow 

 Warbler was seen in a willow along 

 the creek and Ray dug out a King- 

 fisher's nest in the bank but no eggs 

 as yet. Working back into the marsh 

 we found a number of nests of the 

 Redwing and some of the terns. Wil- 

 son's Phalaropes were common bui 

 we failed to locate any of their nests. 

 After leaving the marsh we found 

 several nests of the Mt. Bluebirds 

 with young and in a dead stub a nest 

 of the Pigmy Nuthatch with small 

 young. 



This morning we looked at the 

 Killdeer's nest found some days ago 

 and found it deserted, but nearby was 

 another nest with one egg, and nearby 

 was another with four fresh eggs. This 

 latter was made of rootlets placed in 

 a slight hollow in the gravel bank. 

 Leaving the lake we worked up an 

 old creek and here, where there were 

 many old dead trees, we saw much 

 evidence of the woodpeckers and a 



nest of the Red-breasted Sapsucker 

 with small young was located in a tree 

 ten feet up. In the same tree was a 

 nest of the Mountain Chickadee with 

 small young, more nests of the Mt. 

 Bluebirds with young were noticed, 

 and some incomplete nests of the 

 Parkman's Wren. Working in among 

 some willows along the stream Ray 

 called out to me to come and see a 

 nest that he had found. As I neared 

 him a bird got up and I had a fine 

 set of four fresh eggs of the White- 

 crowned Sparrow. His nest had four 

 young and they were not ten feet 

 ai)art; both were placed even with the 

 ground, his under a small tree, while 

 mine was in the grass in the open. 

 On the bank of the creek four feet 

 from the ground in a large tree we 

 found a nest of the Williamsson Sap- 

 sucker with small young, and watched 

 it some time as the birds brought food 

 for the young, both birds working. 

 On our way back to camp we found a 

 nest of the Audubons with three eggs 

 and two with large young. 



Today we thought we had better 

 blow some eggs so as it was too cold 

 in the morning we rowed about the 

 lake and examined the piles, finding a 

 number of nests of the Tree Swallow 

 with fresh eggs and some with young 

 birds, and in a pile fully 100 feet 

 from the shore we located a nest of 

 the Mt. Bluebird with young, and in 

 another was a nest of the Flicker 

 with young, one half grown,; one of 

 the young came out of the nest as we 

 reached in same, and refused to stay 

 in as we put it back but jumped into 

 the water and made desi)erate efforts 

 to swim toward the shore. By the 

 time we had the boat turned it was 

 e.xhausted, but seemed to revive as 

 I carried it ashore. Just how these 

 land birds reach the shore is some- 

 what of a puzzle. In trees along the 

 shore nests of the Mt. Bluebird, 



