£ Pace of it before I saw it. It was feeding on 
he little insects that were just being warmed 
nto life by the sun. It was quick and alert in its 
m °tions and kept its feathers well puffed out be¬ 
cause of the cold. 
followed the song of a palm warbler across a 
Pasture and saw the bird sitting quiet in a tree 
%ing. Vlhen it saw me it flew down and then as 
followed it went across the river. 
In the woods I scared up half a dozen juncos. 
e y wer e all females and went up into the tops 
1 the trees in the sun. 
Heard son § °f a rose-breasted grosbeak 
elm afterwards 1 s aw it feeding in the top of an 
bv ., There were several chewinks in the brushpiles 
l*e railroad bridge. They called and sang for 
vute a while and did not seem as timid as usual, 
th Louisiana water thrushes flew up and sat in 
OriB trees to sing about thirty feet from the ground, 
do started to sing before it lit. After singing a 
2 en times or so they went back to their feeding. 
, Watched a water-thrush feeding in a ditch for 
ime.. it waded along in the shallow water and 
Pped its tail so that occasionally it touched 
water when it flirted it and shook the drops 
1 that clung to it. It found a small angle- 
im and held it in its bill and walked around with 
as though it did not know what to do with it. 
it shook it sideways and broke it up into small 
P 1 Qces which it ate. 
si i * SaW n C' I ‘t'l e warblers ahead clinging to the 
a ° f * rees » head down or fluttering up them for 
short distance and searching for insects in the 
ac ks. These birds were very thick. 
£ . Then I saw two black-burnian warblers and 
°w 6 <l them in hopes they would sing, but they 
not. They gave a queer call note like tzit 
birri thS ? econd time 1 heard ** 1 recognized~tHe 
^ k>y it. They hunted around on the ground or 
rough the lower brandies. It was so cold that the 
®cts were not up high. It also lit on the sides 
