A pied-billed grebe was feeding in a shelter¬ 
ed hay. Y/hen I came up it dove about 8 rods 
through the shallow water and then came up. I 
could see the ripple it made plainly. 
A greater-yellowlegs flew from one sand or 
mud bar to another but when I got there I could 
hot find it. Three Y/ilson snipe also flew up 
from the muddy shore. 
Juncoes and tree sparrows fed along in the 
Pushes and flew up ahead of me. 
Saw one or two kingfishers, 'i'hey were 
si lent and seemed rather wild. They did not 
like to fly out into the cold wind. 
Goldfinches were thick in the thistle 
patches and one bird that 1 took to be a xemale 
chev/ink. It flew up several times and lit in 
the trees. On the ground it skulked. 
Crows were flying around considerable and 
ttfcde a lot of racket. 
In the afternoon I went hunting out at Jack 
Dickie's. Saw a great homed owl laying by the 
r °ad that somebody had killed. 
In one marsh two mallards flew up a long 
Ways off. I fired twice and hit one of them 
slightly. They flew in an immense circle and 
then went off north. 
Tree sparrows have mostly taken the place of 
the rusty blackbirds although a few of the latter 
lingered with some robins. The sparrows were 
everywhere. They seemed to delight in the water 
and would fly along its surface so closely that 
their wings or tails occasionally dipped into it. 
^hey also lit on weed stems that vent under with 
their weight and waded around feeding ih the 
Httle shadows. They were very tame payingalmost 
ho attention to me whatever, '-^hey sang and called 
a great deal. 1 imagine that brushy swamps like 
this one form their homes in the north. 
Y/ilson or Jack snipe were very thick but 
*ere wild. I shot twenty-one and then quit. They 
Hew around in the air a good deal when I first came 
taking hard shooting. At nightfall they began to 
