May 30, 1900 - Wednesday. 
This morning Toy Leiders bridge Andrew Engle - 
Mann and I found a rose-hreasted grosbeak's nest 
with 4 eggs in it. It was about 16 or 20 feet 
above the water. 
That chicadee's nesting hole was deepened 
nearly 2 inches. Saw a family of young phoebe’s. 
They could fly well. 
This afternoon went down the track. Saw a pair 
of king birds on a wire fence. One caught and 
ate a potato bug. 
There was a phoebe's nest under the bridge. 
I could just. see 3 tails from above. 
In the rock cut a bank swallow had its nest 
in some soft sandstone. 
In a cut near Kirkwood were 4 or 5 bank 
swallow's, and a kingfisher's nests. One bank 
swallows nest has 4 eggs in it. I took one. 
The kingfisher flew out while 1 was getting it. 
All but one of the nests was about the middle 
of the bank too far to reach from above or below. 
One of the Curtis boys showed me a quail's 
nest with 8 eggs in it. 
There was a flicker's nest with 6 eggs in it, 
in a maple in front of the house. One of the 
hoys had caught the female on the nest and she 
deserted it. Looked in the chimney for a swift's 
nest. One was in,it looked very funny. There 
was no nest.On the way home I looked at a red¬ 
headed woodpecker’s nest in a stub by the road. 
It was 4 feet from the ground. Then I went home. 
Looked in that grosbeak's nest by Smith's. 
It had 4 eggs in it. 
Up at the graveyard that phoebe had a nest 
with 3 eggs in it. I wonder if it v/as the same 
nest and eggs that I saw before. When she came 
off she flew to the ground and then along for 
aways. Saw a vesper sparrow singing in its 
favorite place. It got between the insulators 
°n a telephone pole. There were numbers of 
chipping sparrows here. 
