m &rsh wren at first. It flew north out of sight 
but in about five minutes came back still call¬ 
ing. Perhaps it was hunting for a large marsh. 
Saw an immature magnolia warbler. The head was 
bluish gray; underparts yellow; sides and flanks 
lightly streaked with black or fuscuous, throat 
lighter than rest of underparts, two yellowish 
white wing bars,back darker than head. Once I 
thought I caught a glimpse ofblack on its tail, 
ihe only note given was a low tsut generally given 
in answer to a robins or some other birds call. 
Soon another joined it. They were quite restless 
birds and seemed to feed near the ground. This 
“^y have caused by the wind which would keep the 
insects down. Finally 1 lost them. 
While hunting for them I saw a great blue heron 
coming down stream. 1 lay down behind a bush and 
waited for it. The prevailing color in flight was 
bluish grey, with touches of a warm ruddy nature. 
It evidently saw me for.it rose about 10 feet as 
it passed me, and then dropped down to its level 
°f 10 feet above the river. It flew with long 
sweeping regular strokes and had its neck extend- 
e<i * It acted as though going to light in the big 
bend, but a careful stalk in that direction yield- 
®d no results. It must have risen and gone on to 
the Half Moon. 
I returned now to ny wood pewees or rather 
they returned to me for they had followed me to 
a grove of black ash trees. They caught their 
food with a bud snap of the bill. The young 
ones kept up their soft notes continually. 
l'wo bluejays flew out of the grove and called 
loudly at the sight of me. I thought the other 
birds would be alarmed by them but they were not. 
Woodpeckers were well represented. A yellow- 
bellied pecked holes in a red maple to get at the 
8 ap. It was a young one and was silent. Two 
flickers wick ad at each other in the same tree, 
ne flew when it saw me. a downy and a hairy , 
Ooth females packed the trees and the last named 
oalled loudly. 
