44 Obkkijn All Day With the Birds 



I 28 for the writer's persor.al record fully attest the crowded 

 character of this period of the niiiiralions. It will be iiotictd. 

 that no less than iS specif s wt-re recorded later which should 

 have been recorded by the company, and that seven other 

 species were certainly in the region co\-ered but were not seen 

 on that day. Some of these would almost certainh- have been 

 found had the writer's original plan been carried out, but 

 c rcumstances made that impossible. 



The first grouj), consisting of Mr. R. L. Baird and Mr. S. 

 D. Morrill, spent Friday night at Oak Point, in order to be 

 ready for work at earliest dawn. Their work included a care- 

 ful survey of the lake and its shore line in the innnediate 

 vicinity of Oak Point, the marshes at the month of Beaver 

 Creek in the regions of slack water, and the woods and fields 

 within a radius of a mile or less with the Oak Point grounds 

 as a center. Mr Baird visited Chance Creek during the 

 evening, but without success. 



Messrs. D. E. Nye and H. H. Skinner couipo^ed the sec- 

 ond group. Mr. Nye spent the early morning in the gorges 

 of Black River at Elyria, while Mr. Skinner spent the early 

 morning hours in the Black Swamp woods, three miles north- 

 east of Oberlin, later meeting Mr. Nye in lUyna. After 

 spending some time with the warblers in the woods in that 

 vicinity, they took trolle\ to Lorain, and finall>' to Oak Point, 

 sup[)lementing the work there of the first part}-, returning 

 home, with Mr. Morrill, by trolle\ . 



The third group, Mr. Haiold Vincent and the writer, 

 spent the early morning in the old South Woods, a mile south 

 of Oberlin, and since neither could continue the work after 

 noon, they practically exhausted the possibilities of that 

 woods before leaving it at ten o'clock, visiting an orchard in 

 the outskirts of town, the water-works reservoir. Arboretum 

 and cemetery, finally returning with a list of exactly 90 spe- 

 cies for the morning. During the afternoon two more species 

 w< re accidentally added. The original plan of this third 

 group contemplated a visit, during the afternoon, to a region 

 where Broad-winged Hawks, Ruffed Grouse, Barred Owls 

 and Carohna Wrens were nesting, none of which were seen. 

 . during the day. 



