THE MORNING AWAKENING 



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There was no difficulty in keeping awake. The mosquitoes 

 and the chiggers were in hand in such force that I came very 

 nearly giving up, and was just ready to return home when we 

 found relief by going into an old abandoned amunition house. 

 The windows and doors were all smashed in, but the walls and 

 roof and concrete floor were there. 



We built a fire on the concrete floor and smothered it 

 with green grass. The smoke rolled up and chased the 

 mosquitoes away, and we stretched out on the floor below the 

 smoke and in comparative comfort. 



Whippoorwills sang intermittently all night long, but 

 they were especially demonstrative in the early morning from 

 3 :00 to 4 :00. 



The morning chorus was opened at 3 :34 (Standard time) 

 by a scolding Blue Jay, which made a rather discordant be- 

 ginning. The Yellow-breasted Chat was second at 3 :25. His 

 sudden, broken outbursts could scarcely be called musical, nor 

 could the caw of the Crow at 3 :26. 



The following other birds were heard from our station : 



Purple Martin 3:23 



Indigo Bunting 3 :25 



Tufted Titmouse 3 :48 



Wood Peewee 4:03 



Crested Flycatcher 4:12 



Phoebe 4:17 



Wood Thrush 4:18 



Cardinal 4:19 



Scarlet Tanager 4:20 



Kentucky Warbler 4:20 



Downy Woodpecker 4:30 



(Drumming, but no chirp) 

 Chickadee 4:35 



Redstart 4:35V 2 



House Wren 4:43 



Red-eyed Vireo 4:43V 2 



Louisiana Water Thrush. . .4:43% 



Bluebird 4:48 



Yellow-throated Vireo 4:54 



Carolina Wren 4:58 



Cowbird 5:03 



White-breasted Nuthatch. . .5:04 



Maryland Yellowthroat 5:06 



Hariy Woodpecker 5 :14 



(Was seen at 4:46, but was 

 quiet and inactive at that time.) 



