Meadowlarks were in full song and were spread 
all through the fields. 
Flickers were also abundant. They were shout- 
* n S in all directions. 
After breakfast I started for the hemlocks as 
baual. Below Fullmer's I started up two song 
s Parrows and had to follow quite a distance before 
* could see their breasts and thus make sure that 
^bey not swamp sparrows. Their backs looked light 
colored in the glimpse of them that I got of them 
^od then they skulked through the bushes and 
Srass and. were hard to find at all. 
Another one across the river c himped at me in 
a queer deprecatory manner. 
A junco sang, scolded and sang again, keeping 
U P the rotation. It is in this way that the flock 
® Q dley is produced. There are always a number of 
®hem singing in the trees along the hidden path. 
A hairy woodpecker began to nod and give the 
° Ve note and drum without apparent cause, although 
Mother sat in a tree about 200 feet off. Both 
males. 
^ox sparrows were thick. They nearly always 
a ang from the trees occasionally giving choruses 
0f twenty-five or thirty. A.male followed a female 
ar ound giving a very sweet love song but she 
Wou ld havenothing to do with him. 
Some crows along hidden path were very 
hquisitive. They had been feeding on the ground 
bt at my approach flew up and circled around over 
th Ca;i - lin &* 1 remained quiet under the shelter of 
he hemlocks and they lit in the trees just above 
tie 
*ht 
» seeming very curious. Even when 1 came out 
0 sight they did not seem to fear me but came 
^t and perched around within 40 or 50 feet of me. 
At the end of the path 1 saw my first golden 
to jnfid kinglets of the year. They hunted around 
b chicadee like notes anu occasionally sang. 
Co The whole west slope of the East Bluff was 
r Uai- re< * J 11110 oes. They made a fairly loud 
th noise as they fed among the leaves and 
e r notes and song made a rippling undertone like 
