Tonight after supper Clarence, Jim and. I 
went down in the fields. The killdeer's eggs 
'Were not hatched yet. 
There were 3 eggs in the song sparrows nest. 
That nest is prohahly the 2nd attempt of the 
pair that had their nest rohhed farther down. 
Then as it was dark we went home. 
Iiiay 20, 1900 - Sunday . 
This morning 1 went down in the fields. In 
front of Smith's I heard a male Baltimore oriole 
call. I looked up and he was preening his 
feathers. Seated myself hy the fence. Heard a 
meadowlark sing and saw walking around.A red¬ 
winged blackbird gave a loud tseer and a cat¬ 
bird tried several times to mock it hut could 
not. 
Two kingbirds were sitting on a fence. One 
flew down after a miller and after chasing it 
in a crooked course got it. It gave a few low 
notes while after it. Two catbirds flew down 
to the ground. Their coats just matched it. 
They flew up close and one hunted under a brush- 
pile with its feathers sticking out straight. 
It looked like a picture of mischief. Another 
lit in the brushpile and they flew off together. 
Heard a bobolink singing. 
Went over to the killdeers nest. Both birds 
were there. They fell onto their breasts and 
flapped their wings. 
Saw apair of bobolinks. £he male was on an 
elder and the female in the grass. He flew 
around and sang. He stood up as high as she could 
and gave a shrill tsee see see all the time. Then 
she flew over near~eT She hunted around in the 
grass giving an alarm note like chup chup. The 
female song sparrow was on the nest and there were 
2 cowbirds eggs in it. 
Two quail jumped up out of the grass and flew 
off. That nest was nearly done. They were 
lining it with dov.-n from the cottonwood. I 
watched but did not see the old one. (Redstart). 
