black, lined with hrown stiff grass, pig- 
bristles, pine needles very strongly woven. 
The twigs that upheld it had snapped off. 
^ Vent on through the fields. Scared up 
v several vesper sparrows. One flew into a 
bush and sat there looking around. Saw 2 
yellow-bellied woodpeckers and a white-breasted 
nuthatch catching winged ants. 
They seemed to be experts and reminded one 
of huge bats. Even a bluejay caught the fever. 
and swept around one spread wings, making a pair 
of chipmunks think that it was a hawk. The first 
two named would fly out, hover an instant on 
spread wings and then dive downward and rise to 
a perch like this | 
I 
The myrtle warblers were also catching ants. One 
flew after a large moth that was zigzagging about 
but missed. It gave an angry tchip . An instant 
later the moths wings were shotfn from its body 
^ by a yellow-belly and came floating to the 
ground. The warblers generally lit with their 
insects in their bills. 
A chipping sparrow found a worm and picked it 
Up and dropped it several times before swallow¬ 
ing it. Saw a dov/ny woodpecker and heard two 
catbirds. 
Heard a vesper sparrow sing. It repeated the 
last part of the song twice. 
Three bronzed grackles flew east along the 
valley chucking. 
Heard several robins, three were sunning them¬ 
selves in a dead oak. 
The vesper sparrows are quarrelsome now and 
chase each other around. 
Came across a flock of about 25 whitethroated 
and song sparrows. They had there headouarters 
j j in a gully filled with stumps. 
They were quite peaceable. The white-throats 
sang a little. They began with a loud III and 
ended with a low whispered peabody peabody that 
I could scarcely hear. 
