After dinner I went down in the fields. 
Saw 3 male bobolinks back of the schoolhouse. 
They fed und one sang several times. 
In Kista^’s pasture I saw a scarlet tanager. 
on a fence. His mate was there too. He just 
sat there looking around and 1 did not see him 
get anything to eat. 
Once he went on the ground but did not eat. 
It was very hot. The robins ran around with 
drooping wings as though they were roasted, and 
even the tanager did the same. A red-winged 
blackbird that had been sitting in a tree 
pitched down with trembling wings, giving his 
h T wa kr eg all the time. Went on and saw my 
red-head. I saw him on a stub caught between 
trees and his mate was below on the bottomside 
chiselling out the nest. He flew around, 
plumed himself and once went down to her and I 
think fed her. A kingbird lit on a post and he 
flew over and started to light. The other prompt¬ 
ly got out of the way. He seemed to think that 
he had to guard the nest and chased away an in¬ 
quisitive English sparrow. 
Several meadowlarks lit in the tree and sang. 
He flew over and they went away. Her tail just 
stuck out of the hole. 
Went down to the Flickers nest. The old one 
was on it. I climbed up but could see no eggs. 
It was very large. I could not put my hand in at. 
the entrance. 
Went on back. The female woodpecker left 
when I came by and I looked in. It was very 
large, probably because it was on the underside. 
Then 1 went home. 
May 14, 1900 - Monday . 
This morning 1 heard several Indigo buntings 
singing. 
Tonight a nighthawk fly over. It gave the 
callnote. 
