Then I went down in the fields. Took the 
telescope with me. Watched a couple of redheads 
on a fence. A robin flew along in front of a 
oow that was coming up to be milked. Then I 
went through Doherety’s cornfield. Just as I 
was nearly through I heard a spotted sandpiper. 
I sat down and 3 or 4 were feeding about 10 rods 
off. There was 1 killdeer with them. 
They tipped as they walked. One settled down 
and dried his feathers. He then stood up and 
fluttered his wings rapidly to dry them. 
The killdeer ran at him at seized him by the 
back. He used his wings while running and bobbed 
excitedly when he stopped. One flew off. 
A mourning dove lit among them and walked 
around feeding. Suddenly it saw the end of the 
telescope and looked at it for a minute. Then 
it flew away over me. 
The sandpipers were feeding with quick motions. 
Once one ran after an insect. 
Then I went home. 
It rained hard and the ground was very wet. 
The snipe were in a field that was plowed for 
the first time and had water standing on it. 
July 25, 1900 - Wednesday. 
Vent down to watch the sandpipers with my 
opera glass. Looked for some time and thought 
that they had left. Then I saw one. It gave a 
little steely note like put . Another flew up 
with a loud pees wees . The first looked at me 
all the time. After a little it hunted for food. 
Then I went home. 
July 26, 1900 - Thursday . 
V/ent down in the fields about 4;30 p.m. Heard 
a meadowlark and a song sparrow 3ing. 
I looked in the plowed field. There was a 
single spotted sandpiper in it. It kept behind 
hummocks and out of sight. 
A kingbird kept fighting a male rose-breasted 
grosbeak as it hunted for food. The sandpiper flew 
