62 Vol. XX1 
BIRD NOTES OF A STORMY MAY IN COLORADO SPRINGS 
By EDWARD R. WARREN 
WITH ONE PHOTO 
HE MONTH of May, 1917, in Colorado Springs, was, apparently in com- 
mon with the rest of the country, an abnormally cold, stormy one. Many 
cloudy or partly cloudy days, with low temperatures and much rain and 
even snow, prevailed all through the month. Once the maximum temperature 
was above 80—81, on the 16th. On the 15th, 17th and 18th the maximums were 
77, 76 and 76, respectively. On no other day did the thermometer go above 
70. The lowest minimum was 22, the highest 51, the latter on the 18th. 
Fig. 17. SCENE IN MONUMENT VALLEY PARK, COLORADO SPRINGS, MAy 5, 1917. 
LESSER SCAUP DUCKS IN FOREGROUND. 
I had not been devoting as much time as usual in April to bird work; but 
when, on the morning of May 5, I woke up and found some eight inches of 
heavy wet snow on the ground, I decided it was time to see what was going on 
among the birds. I knew this storm, coming at the migrating season, might 
cause suffering, and there was a possibility it might also make delay in the 
arrival of some of the species. About my house the most noticeable thing was 
the great number of Robins, these searching for worms wherever they might 
luckily find a bare spot. The snow was so saturated with water that it melted 
readily, and the plight of our red-breasted friends was thus not as bad as it 
might have been, though many of them evidently thought it bad enough, as 
