and now from one or the other of several across 
the river. 
A white-rumped. shrike flew over calling gzt* 
like a young vesper sparrow. I saw my first one 
last year on the same day. 
Across the river from the hemlocks I sat down 
t° watch the birds. Saw some crows sitting around 
in the pines. They seemed very quiet and I 
c °uld not see what they were doing. 
Heard a great commotion over beyond the 
r °cks but thought it was made by chickens at 
some farm which the wind had brought clearly to me. 
A® 1 started to go on the clamor broke out afresh 
and over the bluffs came a flock of 16 snow white 
I’irds with dark wingtips and their heads seemed a 
little darker than the rest of the body. They 
V'ere greater snow gee.se and flew about 200 feet 
hp. Their notes were loud and sonorous and seem- 
e< i as I could make out to resemble the notes cow- 
c ovy-cow . 
At first si^it I exclaimed swans, but a 
Se cond look showed that they were geese and when I 
£°t home I learned the species. 
Across the river I heard a field sparrow sing 
twice, but could not see it. 
A hairy woodpecker flev; by giving a note like 
■S}j ^uck took and 1 heard others drumming. 
Fox sparrows were thick in the hemlocks 
^specially along the hidden trail. They sang from 
she trees and sometimes from the ground. 
June 068 were quite thick along the east bluff. 
he y kept up a running undertone of songs and 
folding notes from which the songs of the fox 
®Parrows who occasionally sang in concert stood out 
h bold relief. The juncoes gave a hissing note 
like as, 
I lay down in the sun by Phoebe Creek and soon 
Jl °ticed the crowds sitting around in the hemlocks 
., ar the cabin again. I suspected at once that 
6re was an owl there but lay still for a while in 
en deavor to locate it. Then 1 heard a low 
®monstrating whoo-hoo whoo hoo which established 
