Then a fox sparrow gave a duet with a song 
8 Parrow to the latters detriment in ny opinion. 
Two killdeer flew around high overhead all 
the morning calling vigorously and wandering over 
<luite a stretch of country. 
March 30, 1903 - Monday . 
This morning before breakfast I went up to the 
r ailroad bridge. I was looking for a kingfisher 
tut was disappointed. Juncoes were scattered all 
ulong feeding on the embankment and picking up 
gravel to aid their digestions. I followed one 
s °ng up from the lumber sheds to George Kanpp's 
house thinking it might be a chipping sparrow. It 
w a8 almost the first bird I heard. One started 
to fly through a culvert but changed it might 
Just as it reached and went over. 
A fox sparrow across the bridge in a brush- 
Pile gave his love song until I frightened him 
out. 
A flicker drummed on a loose stick v.ith a loud 
rattling noise and then called. Another came over 
towards it. 
Tonight after supper I went down in the fields 
^he kingfisher looked for in the morning flew out 
°f some grapevines in the old pasture. I might 
have known it would be there if any where. 
The song sparrows here were very thick and 
had a great divergence in the pitch and tone of 
their songs. 
APHIL 
April 1, 1903 - W edne sday. 
This morning after breakfast 1 started for the 
hemlock Bluffs to work on the cabin. By Alder 
s ^amp a flock of about a dozen quail picking up 
gravel on the railroad track. In town near the 
Warehouse I picked a ruffed grouse that had been 
ev idently run over by a train while doing the same 
thing. One of the quail flew across a ditch and 
