Wood Thrush 
Me adowl ark 
Field Sparrow 
Brown Thrasher 
Song Sparrow 
Cliff Swallow 
Hose-breasted Grosbeak 
Bobwhite 
Vesper Sparrow 
Bobolink 
Bronzed Grackle 
18 in all. Some were singing and others flew 
over. 
June 12, 1900 - Tuesday. 
This morning went down to Seeley's. The 
young martin's have built quite a bulky nest of 
oat and buckwheat straw. 
Counted 8 bank swallows nests in a sandbank 
near their barn. Y/ent down to the plum orchard 
and beyond. Saw the killdeer and their young. 
The young bad a shorter tail and slimmer body. 
They flew well. All were very noisy. As I was 
crossing a wire fence a song sparrow flew out. 
I looked and found the nest. It was built in a 
little depression and contained 4 eggs. They 
were bluish white blotched thickly with rather 
dark rufous. A little stick laid across the 
nest. 
Went on to the point. Found a redstart's 
nest built in a grapevine about 5-l/2 feet from 
the ground. It contained 2 eggs. They were 
white spotted with cinnamon forming a wreath 
around the large end. There was also a robin's 
nest in some grapevine above the river. 
Found a cedar waxwing’s nest on the tip of a 
toaple limb about 12 or 18 feet above the ground. 
Could not get to it, it was in plain sight. The 
old ones perched close by and called. Y/ent on 
around the river bank. As I stepped out from 
Under a willow a mourning dove sat on a dead limb 
above me. She flew off. I,saw a few twigs where 
she was and climbed up. A rather large limb had 
