Near the marsh I saw a hank swallow. At the bend, 
a strange bird flew around from an oak. 
Saw the bobolinks. They flew up from the 
ground and lit on the reeds. They were very 
pretty. Their wings made a noise. Thy flew up 
and went farther. 
More appeared. One was very excited it 
chucked and spread its tail and flitted its wings. 
The tail nervously expanded like a meadowlarks. 
They dressed their feathers. They flew up and lit 
going straight down suddenly. 
I went into the marsh as near as I could see 
they fed on smartweed seeds. 
Then I went home. 
In Maine's woods I picked up a feather from 
tha tail of some hawk presumably that of the 
Cooper's hawk. 
This afternoon 1 went over across the river. 
It was cloudy and windy and looked like rain. 
The birds were very still, as it was going to 
rain I went over in the farther woods and got 
under a strawshed. 
A red-headed woodpecker kept to the side of 
a tree from the wing and looked as though it 
would be blown off. It was an adult. 
It stopped raining and I went on. 
Crossed the creek and went to the hemlock 
bluffs getting in time to take refuge from another 
storm. 
Saw one or two smaller birds and a large red¬ 
tailed hawk presumably. Then I went home. 
September 5, 1900 - Vfednesday. 
This morning Art Hudy said that there was a 
"wild canary's" nest by their house. 
V.ent up it turned out to be an American 
goldfinch's nest. It was woven in the crotch of 
kn apple tree about an inch through and was about 
5 feet up. It was in aXcrotch and was woven around!! 
the limbs. It v/as shaded from the sun on all 
sides by leaves. The nest was very alean. 
The female was on it when we approached. She 
slipped off the farther side and lit in a corn- 
