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seemed stupid and dull. I saw one immature male Cooper's 

 Hawk and a few kinglets. Sparrows are very common, I 

 identified large flocks of Field, White-throated, and White- 

 crowned. In the big marsh the Gardner brothers saw sixteen 

 Greater Yellow-legs and shot several. They also saw two 

 Golden Plover, about two hundred Mallards, twenty-five 

 Black-crowned Night Herons, twelve Wilson's Snipe, one 

 hundred Coots, seventy-five Redhead Ducks, six Bitterns, 

 five hundred Black Ducks, twelve Wood Ducks, one hundred 

 Pintails, five hundred Baldpate, and seven Red-backed Sand- 

 pipers. This cold, windy weather is hurrying the ducks and 

 waders here from the north and northwest. Albert Gardner 

 says the Wood Ducks are generally gone before this date, and 

 it is late also for the Night Herons. It would also seem late 

 for the Tree Swallows which are dependent on flying insects 

 for their food. The wind has blown so hard here for five 

 days that they cannot find insects in the air, and it is also 

 cold. 



October 14 — There seemed to be no movement of birds 

 last night. The day's records are as follows : Twenty-five 

 Greater Yellow-legs twenty-five Golden Plovers, twelve Wil- 

 son's Snipe, two hundred Coot, one Lesser Scaup, one \\'ood- 

 cock, four Bitterns, one hundred Great Blue Herons, three 

 hundred Mallards, six Black-crowned Night Herons, twelve 

 Marsh Hawks, one hundred Redhead Ducks, fifty Black 

 Ducks, twenty Pintails, one hundred Baldpates, two Tree 

 Swallows, one Short-eared Owl, one Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 

 one Cooper's Plawk, one Sora Rail, one Osprey, one Long- 

 billed Marsh Wren, one Sharp-shinned Llawk, one Robin, one 

 Flicker, three Meadowlarks, and six Goldfinches. 



The Great Blue Herons were migrating in a great flock 

 and must have come from the north as only a few of this 

 species have been seen about the marsh. The Red-head Duck 

 with the Canvas-back and Scaup are the last ones to arrive, 

 and lIic duck hunters say that when they come the shooting, 

 as far as the other species arc concerned, is nearly over. 

 No W^ood Ducks were seen. 



