Found a mourning doves nest. I slowly 
approached and touched the old ones tail and 
Richard did the same. She did not fly. 
Saw a number of spotted sandpipers across 
the river. They were getting mates but I could 
not see them. 
Y/ent across the river. Saw a number of rusty 
blackbirds and cov/birds. A female cov/bird sidled 
down a root and drank from the river like a 
chicken. 
Heard a warbling vireo sing. 
Heard a rose-breasted grosbeak sing and turning 
around saw that it was singing on the wing. Then 
two more did the same. 
The females are here. Heard some bluebirds and 
saw several. Heard a flicker give the whick-ah 
note on the wing. 
Went back on the peninsula and found a blue- 
jays nest with 5 eggs in it. Two were spotted on 
the small end. The old one sat with her bill 
pointing at an angle of 45 degrees. They hopped 
off and screamed. 
Went back and found a mourning dove's nest 
with 2 eggs in it, in a large pine. The dog 
thought we were after a coon and his barking scared ] 
her off. 
Then we went home. 
May 6, 1900 - Sunday . 
The male purple martin is back here. An 
English sparrow lit on the bird house. The 
martin lit on the house and the sparrow flew away. 
Then two sparrows swept around the corner at him 
but he chased them away, lie gave a note like 
chr-r-r . 
The female martin came after breakfast. Went 
down in the fields. I think that the meadowlark 
has left her nest as the eggs were stone cold 
this morning. They wore both there. The male 
called a little v/hen I approached the nest. 
Down in Lawtons pasture I found a robins nest. 
The old one made quite a fuss. Saw a nair of 
viraos. I think that thej ^ 
