A Cheewink came up into the dead top of an 
Oak and "began to sing. I wrote the song as hert 
hert tsee e-e-e-e-e-. They seem to be coming 
Nearer h"orre or perhaps I am ranging farther now. 
One field sparrow seemed to have the whole 
hill to himself and accordingly moved around to 
Afferent perches. 
After breakfast I v/ent over to the hemlock 
hluffs. 
The bluebirds are building in the gasoline 
c an of an unused street lamp in front of Trumble’s. 
They go in and out so quickly that I can hardly 
Se e them. An English sparrow came down to see 
^hat they were doing. 
Another pair were carrying material into a 
bird house on top of the barn. The female seemed to 
^ all the work. The male went with and sat on 
t°P of the house while she was inside. A sparrow 
Was driven away and even a robin who lit on the 
house was forced to take flight. 
Pound a song sparrows nest in the ditch by 
the old pasture and collected it. It was in a 
little hollow and v/as well concealed by grass. 
The female flew out as I came along. 
Heard a number of black poll warblers. They 
8an g tsink a tsink a tsinka tsink a . They kept 
Pretty well in the trees and did not hunt through 
®he bushes as some warblers do. 
I tried to watch the yellow warbler build but 
she refused to do anything but scold. The nest 
is in plain sight of any one that passes and will 
tn ° 8 ^ likely be gone before next week. 
Heard a catbird singing end noticed that it 
^cked the notes or songs of the spotted sand¬ 
piper. Meadowlarks and Baltimore orioles all in 
he space of the minute or tv/o in which I listened 
to it. 
At the Hemlock Bluffs as soon as I came I 
e ard an entirely new song like zee-e-e-e-e-zip 
8 ^d followed it for quite a while before I 
dentified the bird as a parula warbler. It kept 
