Bird Observations 



(the mourning on F. D.'s screen porch). 

 They have been tumbling and flitting about 

 the lawn all day, rarely in the trees. Such 

 a view of warblers I have never seen. 

 They were all so wonderfully tame, and 

 would feed within a few feet of us. It 

 was a moderate day as to temperature, a 

 light westerly wind and partly sunny. 

 Species: Black and white creeper, bay 

 breasted, Blackburnian, Canadian, chest- 

 nut sided, Cape May, golden-winged, mag- 

 nolia, Maryland yellow-throat, mourning, 

 redstart, Wilson's, yellow, oven bird, and 

 in the Durand ravine, Louisiana Water- 

 Thrush and orange crowned warbler. 



May 23, igoj. Saw eleven species, 

 nine of them close to the house. They 

 were on the roof a great deal, dashing af- 

 ter insects. It was after twenty-four 

 hours of heavy, wet weather. Black- 

 throated blue and green, Connecticut 

 (male and female), orange-crowned (seen 

 against the roof plainly), redstart, mag- 

 nolia, Maryland yellow-throat, Cape 

 May, Grinnell's water thrush, chestnut 

 sided, yellow. This has been a cold, late 

 spring and warblers are very late in going 

 through. The trees, too, are not yet in 

 leaf, so one can see them very plainly. I 



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