September 6, 19 0 2 - Saturday . 
Tonight it was rather cold and. chilly. To my 
surprise I heard a lively chipper and looking up 
saw a pair of chimney sxvifts circling and dodging 
through the trees. They must have some young ones 
to take care of yet for they seemed vigorous and 
cheerful and were fully able to undertake the 
•migration. The others left two weeks ago. 
Saw a single nighthawk circling and sailing 
southward. It is curious that most of the night- 
hawks seen in the fall at* going south or east. 
They must migrate some by day. 
Along the river I continually scared up song 
sparrows from the weeds and they flew into the 
w illows, calling t3eet and chimping. 
By the ravine in Maine's woods I saw a number 
of catbirds and indigo buntings. They flew in front 
Shd Beside me for some distance. 
A greyish bird about as big as a crow flew 
hp from a boggy place across the river and went 
silently down stream. It had black markings around 
t>he head. I know it for a black crowned night 
heron. The first I had ever seen. The flight was 
flapping and at a fair rate of speed as that of all '■ 
herons is. Jean BOnnel said that he had seen it 
for several nights. He scared it up on this side 
^ong the brushpiles. 
September 18, 1902 - Thursday . 
This morning it was rather cloudy but the sun 
8 hone occasionally. The robins were very thick as 
bsual. They roost in the maple trees and are very 
We. some of them have lost the neck feathers 
