moving at all scarcely. In this position the;v 
resembled sticks and were easily overlooked. I 
shot at one in a tree and to ny surprise got 
tv/o others. The report did not startle ohe 
birds much. They then began to work down onto 
the flat where a little place bounded by a hill 
on the north and the creek on the south was 
covered with breast high weeds. This was an 
ideal place for them and here we left them, The 
three specimens were all good ones. I have 
not iced"that since cold weather set in that when 
I blow back the feathers looking for shot holes 
numerous bits of feathers become detached. 
Farther on we secured a male hairy wood¬ 
pecker and a white breasted nuthatch. Put some 
suet out for the birds at home. 
Art told me that he had seen a mourning dove 
during the first week of December near Bill. 
Dickie’s marsh. I have included this bird in ny 
monthly list. 
December 18, 19 03 - F riday. 
Out inTront of Henry Erswell’s there 
used to stand about 10 or 12 years ago a so-called 
swallow-tree to which the chimney swifts came. 
It was an elm and was hollow, Fifty-two feet from 
the ground was a hole that fed to the interior 
and farther up the tree was broken off. The 
swifts used both entrances. They first came 
about the first of May and increased in numbei 
every night until thousands and thousands of them 
would be seen toward sunset whirling in the shape 
of a funnel with the lowest birds continually 
dropping into the opening. By dark all were in¬ 
side. During the day they spread out to feed. 
By June all but a few were gone. In the fall 
they came in smaller numbers, generally before a 
storm while Henry who told me all this said that 
he used to lie on his back after working all day 
and just watch them sailing around. One evening 
