Saw a meadowlark give the love song on the 
wing. 
He started from a fence and rose up gradually 
singing on the way until ahout 100 feet up and 
then soared down. 
A pair of chipping sparrows went in the barn. 
I stood by the door and they paid no attention 
to me. 
Saw a male Maryland yellcwthroat in Mrs. 
Hussel’s currant bushes. 
In the meadows I saw a male bobolink. He 
was singing. 
This recess a bluebird lit on the flag staff. 
The male robin has his favorite perches for 
singing. One is the top of the barn and the 
other is Pettey’s box elder. 
Tonight after 3upper I went down in the 
fields. A spotted sandpiper ran along in the 
grass in front of me. I could hardly see its 
back. It matched so well with the grass. Heard 
several Y/ilson's snipe as they jumped up in 
front of me. 
One of the killdeers began to call and the 
other answered it from near the nest. I went 
toward the nest and the old one followed me 
around calling all the time. 
Heard a whip-poor-will up on the hill. 
Then I went home. 
May 10, 1900 - Thurs day. 
This morning I heard a swamp sparrow sing. 
It was by the ditch. The first notes were simple 
and the last were like a harsh rendering of a 
chicadees of sit-a-pul-it-ser . 
Went down in the fields after school and 
found a song sparrows nest with 3 young about 1 
week old, and a cowbird’s egg in it. If it was 
not for the spots you could not tell one end from 
the other. The nest was built in the bank of the 
ditch. The old one slipped off and ran with 
lowered head and neck feathers raised for some 
distance. 
