The Oologist. 



Vol. XXIV. No. 7. 



Albion, N. Y. July, 1907. 



Whole No. 240 



THE OOLOGIST, 



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AMONG THE WOODCOCK. 



The spring season about northern 

 portions of Indiana and Illinois was 

 very backward this year, and South- 

 ern Wisconsin and Michigan experi- 

 enced the same conditions. March 



days were extremely fickle, some be- 

 ing quite balmy, and others very 

 stormy and inclement. 



April, about Chicago, was ushered 

 in with cool lake breezes prevailing, 

 and the entire month was typical of 

 early March weather. Migration was 

 very backward and I amagined the 

 American Woodcock not to be nesting 

 until the temperature moderated a lit- 

 tle, though they are an extremely har- 

 dy bird. I usually make my initial 

 search for their nests at the close of 

 the first week in April, but it was af- 

 ter the 15th inst., this year, before I 

 visited their haunts. Like the craft- 

 man or deer hunter, who immediately 

 reccgnizes signs of his game upon en- 

 tering their domains, I felt that I was 

 net at all too early for eggs of this 

 interesting Wader. I recognized cer- 

 tain signs about the brush that were 

 cf considerable significance, but all I 

 could discover was an empty egg shell 

 which some Jay or Crow had evident- 

 ly carried from the nest of the Wood- 

 cock, and devoured the contents, while 

 leisurly perched en a fallen limb. I 

 hunted faithfully, but could not dis- 

 cover the nest, yet the birds were in 

 evidence. 



April 20th, found me in a large place 

 resorted to by several pairs, of these 

 birds, annually. I started to make a 

 thorough canvas of the poplar, willow, 

 hazel, ash and Sumach bushes stand- 

 ing in patches over a territory quite 

 racist and springy. Presently I espied 

 an incubating bird covering four eggs, 

 situated in a slight depression beside 

 a little log. This disclosure was fol- 

 lowed by an unusual experience, viz.. 

 the detection of another Woodcock 



