April 26, 1901 - Fr iday. 
This morning I was by ji m Patterson's. I heard 
a strange song which at first resembled a song 
sparrows. I saw the bird on a woodpile. It was 
a °out as large as a chipping sparrow and rather 
saembled one. Another one flew into the side of 
,, e wo °<ipile. I saw that they were house wrens. 
e song v/as hard to describe. It was rapid and 
Pleasing. They flew into the sides of the wood- 
PUes. They were mating. The males wings and 
ail drooped while singing. The female scolded 
, . ttale. He would get in front of her, fluff up 
Xs feathers, throw his tail over his back and 
^ ln e. As they lit above me in a tree the black 
bail "'as conspicuous. They were not very 
s tonight after school 1 went over in Volls. 
cared up some quail at the ravines. Saw 3 kill- 
eer. Tapped all the trees I came to but did 
ot find any woodpeckers nests. I found one that 
o~ y be long to a white breasted nuthatch as he was 
°und. When he was near it he went around with 
W Sa(i tail , 8X1(1 1003e ly hung wings as though mat- 
It f- By Seeley's bend I scared up a green heron. 
0 flew into a tree and put its head under the branch; 
which it sat to look at me. It kept twisting 
63 neck in queer ways all the time, 
ab ^ flew hown to the river again and I got right 
j 0ve it * but it saw me before I did it. It lit 
a tree again. It v/as rather nervous and jerked 
8 tail all the time. Then it flew into Seeley's 
r sh. a red-wing chased it. Then I went hone. 
s -^fter supper I went down in the fields again. 
g a y a single rusty blackbird in Piske’s marsh. It 
j &lci tchick . By a pond of water in Maine's woods 
scared up the green heron again. I followed it 
°Und. I tried to sneak up to it but could not. 
Saw a ruby-crov/ned kinglet drinking dew. It 
f ank without raising its head. 
