Saw a song sparrow slide off her nest and 
run along the ground. I found one of her eggs 
lieing at one side with a hole in it. There were 
3 cowbird's and 2 of her own eggs in it. The 
e gg had probably been taken out by one of the 
cowbirds. 
Went on back near the edge of the woods I saw 
two male downy woodpeckers fighting. They were 
silent except for an occasional tsit. They looked 
as if they were tired out and had their mouths 
open. They were fighting over a female. She sat 
on a limb, called and smoothed her plumage as 
though the others were a hundred miles off. 
Then I went home. 
I looked in the bronzed grackle's nest in Law¬ 
ton's yard. It had been appropriated by a robin. 
She had three eggs in it. Last year -Ooris 
Blachley put an old chipping sparrows nest in 
some ivy. In the spring a pair took possession 
and now there are 4 eggs in it. 
Yesterday I heard a nighthawk but forgot to 
note it. 
Kay 13, 1900 - Sunday . 
Went down in the fields after breakfast. The 
song sparrows nest was empty. The female was near 
it. Went on. In the farther side of Maine's 
woods I saw a little bird pull a large pice of 
hark from a dead birch. I watched. It placed it 
in a crotch in a thornapple tree and went away. 
Saw a pair of male red-eyed vireos fighting. 
One sat on a limb and the other hung underit. They 
scolded and threatened but did not fight. 
The wind blew the bark down. 
Saw a Wilson's warbler. It sang. It acted as 
though its tail was out of its control. For when 
it jerked it the bird jerked with it. The one 
of the red eye's flew off singing and the other 
went to his mate whom he had been battling for 
probably. 
Saw two kingbirds chasing a Cooper's hawk; 
he flew very fast. Then I went home. 
