Saw an English Sparrow flycatching by the 
Woodman Hall. It went straight out and flutter¬ 
ed an instant and then dropped head down to the 
ground. The white-eyed vireo’s alarm note is 
chit chitit . It sounds something like an 
English sparrow, f 1 ' 
This afternoon 2 redtailed hawks were 
circling around, soon another joined them and 
another and another so on until there were 9 of 
them. They flew north. One went up so high 
that I could hardly see it. 
Apri1 8, 1900 - Sunday . 
This morning before breakfast I went down 
in the fields. Saw two bronzed grackles flying 
around. 
Saw a red-winged blackbird. He gave three 
alarm notes, chuck tunk and a whistled tseiu r. 
Then I went homeT 
Went over in the sugar bush this afternoon. 
Heard a phoebe give an alarm note like tsip tsip 
per . 
Saw a lot of ruby-crowned kinglets. 
Their underparts were whitish; back and wing 
dark olive green; one white wing bar; primaries 
and band on the secondaries black, tail notched. 
Common note see see. Its song was like see see 
sita sweep etfT It was a sudden outburst. It 
was very resTless. They were about as large 
as a white-eyed vireo. It hardly ever came be¬ 
low the tops of the 15 foot saplings, and would 
fly down to the bottom branch of a tree and work 
up. It had a curious habit of turning its head 
and looking up. 
Its note was something like that of a 
chicadee. While watching them I scared up one 
of the barred owls. It was only about 20 feet 
above me. Saw the yellow-bellied sapsucker 
driving his wells in a black maple. They are 
generally silent, excepting when two got to¬ 
gether. 
Went over and looked at the barred owl’s 
