The ones that remined were male and female. 
They faced each other and slowly began to wag 
their tails. They raised them higher and higher 
& nd finally their tails and bodies were straight 
(S u p. It reminded me of a pump handle. I think 
that the nest will be in a hollow near them. 
There were a number of song and tree sparrows 
the marsh. 
After breakfast, Art Rudy, Jim Seeley, 
Clarence Cook and I went over to the hemlock 
luffs. While at Seeley’s we heard numbers of 
birds singing in the marsh. It was a bright 
vv ith a few clouds. It grew dark later. Heard 
some meadowlarks in Fiske's pasture. Saw a 
dumber of robins. Song sparrows were very 
thick. 
In Voll’s marsh a phoebe flew by me as 1 sat 
? n a log. I followed and saw it pick up a few 
dsects. It was very wild. Went over to 
Aapelkis. Heard a killdeer several times. 
Irairie horned larks were quite numerous. 
Across Seeley Creek bluebirds were thick. Heard 
ed < V S&Vl ^ red-headed woodpeckers. As we approach- 
the hemlocks a hawk screamed several times from 
e yond the cave. Jim and I went over to see it. 
As we approached it flew away. We remained still 
a dd soon it came back with another one. They 
^rcled over us and I saw that they were male and 
em&ie marsh hawks. The black and white markings 
/ ere handsome on the wings. The female had brown 
hstead of black. They screamed ke-e-e-yer-rr. 
^ Ig-eyoy; . some crows followed one around". They 
bircled around 50 feet up to see what we were. 
Jim and 1 went over on the point and climbed a 
ree to wait for them to come back. They did not 
I'Ome. Close by I noticed a large nest. I looked 
w . it closely and saw that it was being mended 
th pine-twigs. It may belong to some crow. 
a neard a loud rattling kwar-r-ruck much like 
j £®Hhead. It came from a red-bellied woodpecker. 
a thought it was a redhead at first. The bird had 
Oui- Ule in top of Q s t u b. Saw another cutting 
a hole. Saw two flickers. 1’hen „e »nt horn. 
