Skunk Rocks. 
That chicadees nest in Dickie’s pasture was 
deserted for it was full of cobwebs. 
Saw a dozen or more juncos across the river. 
There were one or two males with them. I drove 
them all the way from Skunk Rocks to the hemlocks. 
They would fly a short distance, wait until was 
Upon them and then fly again. If 1 had not kept 
close watch I might have thought that juncoes were 
spread along the whole distance, whereas there 
were only about a dozen of them. 
At the hemlocks about the first thing I saw 
was another bluegray gnatcatcher. It acted mxich 
like the one seen in the forenoon but had a habit 
of tumbling head over heels down through the 
^ranches after insects. While v/atching it I heard 
the now familiar put up the hill and saw another. 
% their actions they were mated. They kept rather 
close together and one called once in a while. 
They- kept pretty well up in the branches and 
continually cleaned their bills on the limbs. 
Two male blackburnian warblers were seen. 
They kept up in the tops of the trees as the in¬ 
sects were flying high. They made sallies after 
insects into the air and descended to the tree 
tops again with all the grace of the phoebes and 
Other flycatchers. Sometimes they tumbled down 
through the branches of the trees chasing some 
elusive insect. One had the orange on the more 
extended than eny other I have seen this year. 
Several black-throated green warblers were 
seen. They also fed in the tops of the trees but 
contented themselves with the insects nearby with¬ 
out making sallies after those in the air. As I 
jumped over a log the winter wren came out from 
Under a piece of bark and flew into a dense tangle 
where I lost him. I thought that perhaps there 
Was a nest there, but could find no sign of one. 
A single tree swallow flew over about 150 
feet up going due south. To the naked eye its under 
Parts looked black. 
