Saw a brown thrasher. It was wild. 
By the ditch I geared up another quail. Its 
wing touched a wire. Then I went home. 
This afternoon 1 went down the railroad track. 
Over in J. Voeck's field 1 heard a prarie horned 
lark singing. In his marsh I saw a male yellow 
Warbler. It sang. 
Heard a number of Maryland yellowthroats. Two 
crows flew down from the hill. They lit among the 
bushes. They we re probably after frogs. 
There were number of catbirds here and I saw 
a male brown thrasher and listened to it sing 
for some time. 
Found a mourning dove’s nest with 2 eggs in it. 
The nest was more cup-shaped than usual. Went 
over across the track. Heard a horned lark singing 
hut could not locate it at first. I was in a 
plowed field. 
Suddenly it came down like a rocket close by. 
It had been singing in the air. It was the 
prarie horned lark and was very handsome. Saw 
two quails in a rather low place. 
Went over to Glen Hackett's. Saw a meadowlark 
fly down to her nest, but lost track of her and 
did not find it. Glen showed me 2 song sparrows 
nests, one with 1 egg and 1 bird and the other 
with 4 eggs, 1 mourning dove's nest with 2 eggs 
in it and a newly finished chipping sparrows 
nest. 
Then I started home. 
In M. Maine's meadow I saw a female bobolink 
with a straw in her mouth. She appeared to be 
very anxious and I sat down to watch her. She 
would fly down in the grass and then rise up 
again. 1 watched her for some time. Then I went 
home. 
May 21 , 1900 - Monday . 
This morning I went down in the fields after 
breakfast. There wei'e 4 eggs in the song sparrows 
nest. In the unfinished nest (redstart) was a 
cowbird's egg. I took it out. 
