Several song sparrows had gathered to hear it. I 
was rraich surprised. 
It flew to an oak and mocked a killdeer 
closely. 
On my way home I heard a froglike note. I 
looked up and a large bird lit just above. It 
looked like a shrike but it had too long a tail. 
The wings had the white markings. I think that 
it was a mocking bird. Went home and got my 
glass. When I got buck I saw some robins and 
several song and tree sparrows. 
A robin sang in a low tone repeating each 
note several times. 
Some meadowlarks were singing. The full 
song sounded like take your girl and sell her. 
The song is sometimes cut off short. 
Heard some killdeer and hunted for a dry placel 
to sit itp There were two. They stood perfect¬ 
ly still for about 10 minutes. Thenone shook his 
head prettily and preened his feathers, and 
finally sat down. He did the last twice. The 
other ran down to where another sat and he got up. . 
When one would get anywhere near anothers legs 
he would promptly back up aways. 
Their common note was t v/eep ep eep tweep 
weep . It was a talking note. It" was also an 
alarm note. One squatted on its chest as though 
in a nest, and the others came up by it. Every- 
time I moved they would stay motionless for a few 
moments. They gave a note like weep weep . After 
a while they flew off. After they lit I heard 
one give a short killdeer , killdeer . 
Went on up to where the killdeer were. 
Watched them for awhileand then made a drawing 
of the track. The tracks are about 2-l/2 inches 
apart. The heel does not show in the track. 
A meadowlark was feeding beside a cow. 
I got behind the cow and watched the lark. It 
sang when I was only 20 feet away. Then it 
recognized me and flew off. 
