May 8, 1900 - Tuesday. 
This morning I saw”that warbler again. It 
was a Cape May warbler. 
Description; breast yellow, sides and breast 
streaked with black; cheeks rufous, streak on 
wing, coverts yellow, wings blackish, back olive 
green streaked with black; throat yellow, streak¬ 
ed like breast, tail notched, underside white. 
It was hunting around in the Norway spruces in 
Pettey’s house. It would pick away for nearly a 
minute in one place. I picked a branch and 
found the end of it covered with plant lice. 
The crown was blackish,line through eye 
black. 
It was quite tame and kept about the middle 
of the trees. It was quite silent when one 
place was picked over, it would look around, sing 
and then go to another. Once when it flew an 
English sparrow was in front of it. It chased the 
sparrow away. 
Tonight after supper I went down to the 
killdeer’s nest. The old one came off and called 
when I was about 5 rods away. I seated myself 
and waited. She would sneak along in the grass 
and then squat as if she had a nest. She did 
that several times staying about 5 minutes in 
each place. 
Then I examined the nest. The hollow was 
lined with a little grass. 
Found a song sparrows egg laying on the 
ground unbroken. Then I found some white horse¬ 
hair and then the nest. There were five eggs 
and one was punctured. A bronzed grackle 
probably had taken the nest north from the ditch 
as the one egg was south of the ditch. Then I 
went home. 
May 9, 1900 - Y/'ed ne sday. 
This morning tlie purple martin is back. Saw 
a male bronzed grackle buildiig its nest. It 
took stuff from an English sparrows nest. 
