BALL 8 S HILL 
1900 
Ilay 29 
North-bound 
Warblers , 
Thrushes , 
etc. 
arrive 
I was in the woods on and about Ball’s Hill most of 
the forenoon and in the afternoon visited Davis’s Hill. 
Apparently all the birds which were here yesterday remained 
over and an immense number arrived from the South during 
the night. At least the woods were swarming with birds 
to-day throughout the Ball’s Hill region. Most of the 
from the South 
in extra- "™ Unmistakable northern migrants were Black-polls, Canadian 
ordinary 
numbers & 
variety. 
Y 
e 
Mourning 
M. lex 
Warblers and Water Thrushes. I saw at least fifty individuals 
of each of the first two, the majority being females. There 
were two large Gray-cheeked Thrushes and an Olive-back at 
Ball’s Hill. Traill’s Flycatchers were scattered about 
along the river front and across the river on the West 
Bedford shore. I could not count them accurately as they 
were continually shifting from place to place but there were 
certainly three or four. I wonder if the reason why they 
are such late migrants is that they do not like to move 
northward until the thickets are in nearly full leaf. Their 
shyness and love of concealment mould suggest such an 
inference. I did not succeed in‘catching sight of one to¬ 
day although I tried repeatedly to follow up the pip call 
which was so constantly in my ears. 
LShortly after breakfast I started a beautiful adult 
male Mourning Warbler directly in front of the cabin. An 
hour later I saw him half way to the bars and in the afternocn 
the Misses White and I found him in the swampy thicket east 
of the cabin. He was silent, sluggish and very tame, allowing 
