July 7, 1900 - Saturday. 
This afternoon there was' an unusual commotion 
among some white-breasted nuthatches by Mrs. 
Pettey’s. Watched them. They were courting. 
The males went around with wings and tail spread 
calling sic a- enk kwee kwee. -hey were very 
pretty. 
July 9, 1900 - Monday . 
Pound a brown thrasher's nest in M. Maine’s 
woods, this morning. It contained 3 eggs. 
One was larger and had less spots than the others 
The nest was in a thicket of prickly ash and was 
about 4 feet from the ground. 
Kilbourn. 
July 11, 1900 - Wednesday . 
Our family and several friends went camping 
on the Wisconsin River near Kilbourn. 
Jim Seeley, father and I started about 6:30 
in the carriage. 
Saw numbers of vesper sparrows between 
Pullmer's and Dickie’s. 
after going over the Ebenezevhill the field 
sparrows were prominent. When we drove by they 
pitched into the brush by Pettey's corners. Two 
quail ran along in front of the horse for two or 
three rods. They vere male and female. 
The bobolinks and red-v/inged blackbirds were 
gathered in a flock in a hayfield. Some were 
perches on the roof of a ochoolhouse sunning 
themselves. 
The scrub patches on the sand were alive with 
field sparrows. 
A family of martins had a nest in a bird house 
°n top of a porch. Saw a single chimney swift 
coursing about this side of Delton. 
Saw a black and white creeping warbler on a 
scrub oak. In Kilbourn English sparrows were 
thick 
