been looking for it all the spring. It hopped 
around in a little tree keeping pretty well hidden, 
and then disappeared into the hedge and I lost it. 
ft seemed rather leisurely in its movements and 
°nce or twice came out when I could see it plainly. 
After echool I went down toward the water¬ 
works dam. On the river hank I found blue jays 
nest about ten feet up in a thornapple. It was in 
little hollow in the branches and I could not 
s ee the old one at all until I climbed up getting 
sharply pricked on the way where she flew off went 
away, nest was made of twigs, paper, cloth 
end weed stems lined with rootlets. It contained 
four eggs very dark and so heavy that I thought 
they were nearly hutched but incubation was just 
begun. I hesitated before taking them and if it 
had been anything but a blue jay I probably would 
not have touched them. Aftewards i heard the 
Pair screaming about the spot as they discovered 
^hair loss. 
Saw a single palm warbler near the river, 
ft was hunting quietly and systematically through 
the roots of a tree. 
Saw several spotted sandpipers. One lit on a 
fnrge stone in the middle of the water and 
np and down. 
As I passed a little poplar stub a male down^ 
hitched up it and then flew to another tree. On 
the side away from the open was his nesting-hole 
Evidently nearly finished. 
Saw a female cowbiru sneaking around in the 
Sr&ss. She skulked off as a song sparrow does in 
having its nest. I thought she might have been 
f®ying an egg but could find no nest. 
Then a female song sparrow flew up and a 
found her nest concealed under some long grass. It 
c °btained five young covered with dark grey fuzz. 
Across the river 1 saw a bird move in a 
*iUow and stopped to look at it. ft was only a 
few feet off but I went up to about six feet and 
hen it came out of leaves. It was a ^ape May 
