hy moulting and. have a very queer look. They 
are not very noisy, hut move around considerable. 
They are rather pugnacious. I saw some eating 
crabapples in Miss Gattiker's yard. In Hoags 
yard they bathe and drink in the pan. 
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Baraboo) 
There were also a number of bronzed grackles 
around. There is a flock of about 36 and as far 
as I can tell they are all males. They seem to 
e ep in a certain territory. There v/ere a number 
feeding on sweet corn with several bluejays. They 
are tame but when one flies all go generally. 
They drink but I have not seen them bathe as the 
r °hins and blue jays do. 
Saw about eight olive-backed thrushes which 
had come in the night. They were rather wild and 
it was hard to get a fair sight of them. 
Heard one or two myrtle warblers the first 
°f the year. Some mornings birds are very abundant 
and on others hardly a one can be seen. 
September 20, 1902 - Saturday. 
This morning Jacques' Pfannstiehl' and T“went out 
to Devils Lake to stay a day at their cottage. 
Everything was beautiful. There was a bank of fog 
hat hung about 100 feet above the surface of the 
iake and obscured the tops of the bluff. Heard a 
hew blue jay note at Kirkland. A harsh rattle with 
a sudden metallic turn at the end like kr-r-r-r-tink 
Eluejays were very thick and could be heard calling" 
n all directions. Saw one or two kingfishers 
vfcile crossing the lake in a boat. As soon as we 
had put the things in Pfannstiehl’s cottage we went 
hnting. Over back of Messengers we saw a male 
oiacle-throated blue warbler. It acted like a 
redstart and 1 thought was one at first. It soon 
isappeared and we went on. Two red-tailed hawks 
led out of the woods ahead and circled away. 
