Saw a red-eyed vireo eat a few elder berries 
in the same bush with two robins. One of these 
robins was a young one, and it kept up the feeding 
note as it pecked at the berries. f i'he young one 
id not see me until I was close up and then it 
tew away with a great deal of flutter. .One old 
ne let me come as close as they do in town while 
was on the ground. 
Heard the note of a water thrush and following 
up saw the bird feeding under a thornapple 
^ flew in front of me for some distance 
and then circled back giving a long drawn note 
ke tsee-it . It was fairly tame. 
This afternoon Art Hudy and I started for the 
emlock Bluffs. Saw a phoebe flying along 
klstaU's fence. It is the first I have seen for 
some time. 
In Voll’s woods wood pewees were very thick. I 
saw one clear on the top of a broken off limb. It 
high 8b ° Ut 20 feet UP ’ hardl y ever get that 
Hy the spring in Voll’s woods were a great 
number of sparrows. Song sparrows predominated 
a sprinkling of chippers. They were feed¬ 
ing on weed seeds and all flew into the trees. One 
pping sparrow lit in a very thick little tree, 
walked under it and there it was about two feet 
al head ‘ did not see till I moved 
na then it flew away, much frightened. All had 
* ike - tseet » Saw one adult song sparrow 
an • 4 -* 1 f d n ° tail * flew across the river and 
it had no tail it flew straight with a great 
■‘■Uttering of its small wings. 
Along the river were a number of goldfinches. 
t ime^° Un ^ 0nes ke Pt up a constant tse he all the 
V/o ued_headed woodpeckers were surprisingly quiet. 
on lu ly SaW tw ° in Voll ' s pasture. They were both 
he same tree and kept still on the shady side. 
Un a y0lmg chi PPy calling and looked it 
and < , f l e f t0 & l0e near V and I reached over 
wa picked It up. It had a tall about two thirda 
