■blossoms and one of the yellow-bellied wood¬ 
peckers did the same. Suddenly I saw a female 
ruby-crowned kinglet not four feet away. It 
was hunting in a gooseberry bush and flitting 
its wings and moving all the time. It looked 
at me and I saw that it v/as not afraid. It 
would pick something from a bud and then fly 
out and get an insect with an audible snap. 
Went over across the river by the railroad 
bridge. Found another nest in a willow stub 
near the first. It was on the under side of 
the limb and I think that it belongs to a white¬ 
breasted nuthatch; as they were auanking around 
a large flock of rusty blackbirds flew over and 
lit in the woods. They were singing. This seems 
to be more of a wood bird than its congeners. 
I see it frequently in the woods feeding and 
singing. 
A belted kingfisher by the river flew off 
with a loud rattle. Then I went home. 
This afternoon I saw an English sparrow 
go into my Martin house with a straw. It was a 
male. I am not going to let it build. 
Tonight after school Percy and I went down 
to the barred owl’s nest. 
We put a stub up against it and Percy went up 
it. I wanted an egg for my collection. He 
dropped it into my hat. 
I went home and spent 1 hour blowing it. 
It had the main part of the embryo well formed. 
It washed off well. Before it was all dirt. 
There was one little hole in it. The shell was 
pushed in and the owl must have done it with her 
claw. 
She flew off with her feet hanging. After 
we left they hooted and went back on the nest. 
April 19, 1900 - Thursday. 
This morning I put a board over the two 
bottom holes of my Martin house and am going to 
