The Wilson Bui.i.ktix — No. 47 4^ 



The acconipaiiyiu)^ table clear!}- iii-'licales that the Oak 

 Point region is by tar the richest single region of the vicinit>\ 

 This is more clearly proven when it is known that of the 

 writer's personal list of 128 species 120 were recorded at Oak 

 Point. Here are combined lake shore, mar.sh, muddy flats, 

 wet woods, open woods, heavy woods, brushy tangles, rolling 

 fields and flat wet fields. Farm houses and extensive orchards 

 entice some birds which usually remain several miles inland. 



The day was more nearly ideal than any succeeding day 

 when work of this sort was attempted. The temperature 

 ranged from 57 degrees at 3 o'clock in the morning to 80 de- 

 grees during the middle of the day. The air was decidedly 

 chilly during the early morning hours, but the sky was clear 

 until near noon, when threatening clouds appeared, later 

 breaking awa)' to fair. The wind was s. e , light to brisk, 

 dymg away in the evening 



Species marked A were abundant, C, common, T. C. 

 tolerabl}' common, F, few in numbers Figures indicate the 

 number seen. 



May 9th was a very different day. Three o'clock in the 

 morning found the writer at Oak Point, a half hour too early 

 for the first bird, which proved to be the only Screech Owl of 

 the day. When the Whip-poor-wills began, a few minutes 

 later, the Nighlhawks, Cardinals, Catbirds and Field Spar- 

 rows were aroused for their first sleepy songs. Within half 

 an hour most birds were singing or calling. At 1:30 a. m. 

 the sky was half cloudy, wiih a brisk southwest wind to help 

 push the wheel over the dozen miles of road. At 6:30 the 

 wind had shifted to west by south and increased to heav}', 

 driving dark clouds before it, accompanied by a dash of fine 

 rain and a perceptible drop in the temperature. By 10 o clock 

 the temperature had dropped from 70 degrees at the starting 

 to 54 degrees, the heavy wind and dark sky continuing, but 

 without rain At the approach of the storm all birds dropn^'^ 

 from the tree-tops or higher branches to the ground, ui neai 

 it, and remained low down during the day. They lost their 

 timidity, most warblers permitting an approach within ten 

 feet or less. It was during the last of the fine rain that a fine 

 male of Kirtland Warbler stopped near me and remained 

 •within twenty feet, often within eight, for at least ten min- 



