This evening Art Rudy and I went up on the 
1x111 to hear the whippoorwills. We did not get 
^est far enough to have them light above us. 
•there were 6 Or 8 of them. Once 4 sang together, 
it was a confused noise with whip notes running 
through it. -- 
May 10, 1901 - Friday . 
Tonigiit after school 1 heard several wood 
thrushes singing. 
Saw uO martins flying around. Saw a chest-nut 
sided warbler in Trumbulls trees. It sang. 
May 11 , 190J. - Saturday. 
This morning Art Rudy and I took our dinners 
and went down the track. By the depot a pair of 
ank swallows have started to dig their nest. 
ln that bluebird’s nest in the hollow post 
there were young. 
Saw a yellow warbler in Voeck's marsh. It 
Was singing'. 
Many birds were along the track to pick up 
gravel. . 
Saw a prairie horned lark, vesper sparrows 
6n d 4 mourning doves eating gravel close to one 
Mother. 
In the woods close to the flume we saw a 
ar &e great horned owl, several times. The 
^°ods here were a succession of rises and hollows. 
& t yellow-bellied woodpecker’s nest v/as not 
one yet. I hit the tree but nothing came out. 
climbed up a little sapling by it. One of them 
t on the tree and gave a low call and the other 
aRle °ht with some pieces of wood. Then the first 
he^v/ent in and the other staid by the door. 
a song coming continually from the top 
It was like te tsia tsia chippy chippy 
ar -=^-^_ The first was like that of “a field 
Parrow and the second like a chipping sparrow, 
was hard to locate and when I had found it I 
Ui not identify it. It was so high up. Wnall „ 
Heard 
tree. 
■S^Ppy. 
