Barn Swallows 
Bank Swallows 
Eave 
Swallows 
flocking; 
Robins 
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Barn Swallows were numerous along the river to-day 
but most of them were flying and I think the young ones 
were getting their own living for I saw only three or four 
single birds perched. At least this was the case in the 
morning",but at evening, a little before sunset, fully thirty 
were assembled in one tree, a black willow opposite the 
swimming place. There used to be a roost in this tree years 
ago (1886 or *87) and I think that the birds which I saw 
there to-night were preparing to go to roost, although I 
was unable to watch them long enough to settle the point. 
I see Bank Swallows in about the same numbers as 
during the past month but no young birds have appeared yet 
and there is no indication of flocking on the part of the . 
old. 
A flock of fully 40 Eave Swallows passed over 
the Buttricks 1 house this evening some time after sunset. 
They were rather high up and were moving towards the south¬ 
west. So far as I could make out, there was not a single 
Swallow of any other species with them. I do not think 
that they were migrating. Probably it was merely a flight 
to the roost. By the way, where and how do Eave Swallows 
roost? Investigate this! 
For more than a week Robins have sung most freely 
during the day-time — especially in the afternoon — and 
sparingly, or not at all, in the early morning and after 
sunset. I do not as yet see any indications of a roost in 
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