chased away. The note of the young was some¬ 
times like zhee. After feeding them the female 
would sit on the edge of the nest for an instant 
and look around. The nest v/as about 13 or 14 
feet above the water. I sat in the shade of an 
elm about 30 away. The nest swung a good in 
the wind. Y/ent down to the red-head's nest. 
They have changed its location making it farther 
out probably because of a knot by the other 
hole which made digging hard. There were young 
in it. The old ones fed them jointly. 
They would go to the ground and get a grass¬ 
hopper and beat it a little on the stub and then 
give it to the young. They also caight insects 
on the wing. The young were too small to come 
to the opening. 
Looked in the tree that had the kingbird’s 
nest in last year. There was a nest in it but 
it had been robbed. It was a kingbird's nest. 
The bottom v/as covered with egg shell. 
Climbed up to the hairy woodpecker's nest. It 
was about 25 feet from the ground in a maple. 
Found a phoebe's nest in under a bank. It 
was fastened to it under the grass and contained 
3 phoebe's and 2 cowbird's eggs. The old one 
flew down to the ground and went along it', then 
she curved up to a branch. Took the cow r bird's 
eggs. In the woods I saw a family of white¬ 
breasted nuthatches. The young did have black 
on their necks. They shook there wings and 
called quit quit quit ank. 
The flicker r s nest was empty. It smelled 
very strong. 
Found a newly finished song sparrows nest in 
a gooseberry bush farther on. 
Saw a sparrowhawk flying around screaming 
and found its nest by the noise the young made. 
It v/as in an old woodpeckers hole about 70 feet 
Up. T/ent on back. By the vireos nest I saw tu r o 
male song- sparrows fighting over the river. They 
both fell in and one had to swim to shore. They 
