The next instant it jerked up its tail and then flew into 
an arbor vitae hedge, when I at once recognized it as a 
Mocking-bird. I got out of the buggy and followed it when 
it flew up into an elm and then crossed a field to another 
elm, where I left it. It was evidently an old male but it 
was not in the mood for singing and kept absolute silence. 
! Bluebirds were seen in about the numbers in 
which they are represented during the breeding season. 
Doubtless their migration has now passed by. Red-winged 
Blackbirds were in small flocks flying about in orchards, 
none singing in the meadows. Chickadees in pairs in or¬ 
chards and birch trees. Crows in pairs and not over a 
dozen seen in all. A few Crow Blackbirds but no Rusties. 
No Swallows or Pewees. Song Sparrows simply swarming but 
not singing freely. Their migration apparently at its 
height. 
There has been little or no change in the bird 
fauna of my garden. I see one or two Robins daily but have 
heard only one sing — on the 3rd. The clamor of the 
detestable House Sparrows is for the most part the only 
Spring(?) sound within my haroow boundaries. I have not 
heard a Song Sparrow there this year and no Juncos have 
visited me as yet. There mas a Downy Woodpecker in my 
appletrees this morning, howeverj 
