Carolina 
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Arrival 
of Cow 
Birds 
Arrival (?) 
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Colaptes 
While I was standing on Bensen’s knoll this after- 
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noon five Carolina Doves, flying in company hut each bird 
at least a dozen feet from its nearest companion, passed 
overhead at the height of about 100 feet. They came ffom 
the north-west, otherwise I should have suspected them to 
be migrating. The pines cut off my view of them after 
they passed, but a moment later a Dove began cooing in the 
direction in which they went. 
As I was passing Hunt’s Landing this evening a 
Cow Blackbird flew overhead in a wide circle,calling, and 
a little later I saw two sitting together in the top of an 
elm at the Buttricks’. I am satisfied that this was a 
veritab le arrival for i^-the birds had been about this 
morning I should have almost certainly seen or hes,rd them. 
A Colaptes was "shouting” in a maple just below 
Flint’s Bridge this morning but the appearance of one of 
these birds at last but serves to emphasize the absence of 
the others that should be making the air resound with their 
"shouting" these early spring days. 
A Hairy Woodpecker called a few times on Holden’s 
Hill this afternoon. 
