BALL'S KILL 
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118 
North¬ 
bound 
migrants 
abundant 
Water 
Thrushes 
Lincoln's 
Finch 
Water 
Thrushes 
Snipe drums 
Least 
Flycatcher 
catches 
and eats 
a butterfly 
[Ransacked the Ball's Hill woods and thickets directly 
after breakfast. Saw or heard a few Black-polls and Yellow- 
rumps, a good many Wilson's Black-caps, very many Canadian 
Warblers, a Black-throated Blue and a Black and Yellow, a 
Blackburnian, an unprecedented number of Water Thrushes (at 
least 20) a Lincoln's Finch and a great number of common 
resident birds such as Cat-birds, Red-eyed Vireo, Chestnut¬ 
sided Warblers, etc. 
The Water Thrushes not only fairly swarmed along 
the river banks but were scattered about everywhere among the 
oaks on the sides and top of the Hill. I have never known 
them to be so numerous here before. 
A Snipe drummed for nearly an hour on the marshes 
opposite the cabin. This was betv/een 7 and 8 A. M. , the 
weather foggy at the time. 
A Least Flycatcher perched in the top of a leafless 
oak suddenly launched out and caught an 
Butterfly. He struggled with it for several minutes, re¬ 
peatedly beating it against the branches, frequently dropping 
and recovering it, finally reducing it to pulp and swallowing 
it 
c 
Mi^ati ng 
Mary land 
Yellow - 
throat s 
on dry , 
woode d , 
hillsides 
Most of the Maryland Yellow-throats which have been 
so numerous here during the past week have evidently been 
migrants. They have been found everywhere, quite as fre¬ 
quently an dry hillsides and hill-tops or in dense, dry 
oak woods as in swampy places. I saw a female t«-i-e morning 
