redhead 
leave it there until the purple Martins come 
hack. The English sparrows are trying to build 
in it. 
Chipping sparrows are here in considerable 
numbers this morning. They are in full song. 
Before I had seen only one. 
At recess I saw a male purple martin. It 
was floating with its head to the wind. It staid 
still. It moved its wings and tail to balance. 
This noon I was going along by Mr. Grey’s. 
A robin flew up and lit in a tree. It had its 
bill full of grass. The male came too. Then 
she deposited it on a limb. Another male came 
and was chased away. ¥hen I went to school a 
bluejay flew out of a tree by Mrs. Lyons. I 
looked up and saw a nest. Another bluejay flew 
off from it. It screamed when it got a long way 
off. I did not examine it as the boys were at 
school. 
I pulled the blue jays nest out of Mrs. Lyons 
tree tonight. It had no eggs. It was made of 
string, plum branches, pine branches and twigs, 
paper, both tissue and common .and chicken feathers 
The nest was well hidden in the branches of a 
pine about 8 feet from the ground. 
After supper 1 found another bluejay*s nest 
in one of Mrs. Ruseel’s Norway spruces. I know 
now what they were doing in the tree. They give 
those notes to make love and while building the 
nest. It was about 20 feet from the ground. I 
let it alone. 
Saw 
One 
April 20, 1900 - Friday . 
This morning I went down in thefields 
another cliff swallow. 
The meadowlark’s were sailing around, 
v/ould hold his wings stiff and sail, give a 
song like his usual one. Down by the river I 
heard a field sparrow sing. In a stub that was 
supported by two trees and hung at an angle of 
about 60 degrees. I saw a hole. It was on the 
underside. Then I went home. 
