JUNE 
. June Z, 1901 - Sunday . 
£his afternoon I went over tcPthe hemlcoks. 
°und a chipping sparrows nest in a gooseberry 
Ush by KapeIke’s. It contained eggs. The old 
n e sat on the until ny hand nearly touched it. 
,e nt on across the creek. A bluejay sat in the 
^°P of a large tree for a long time and never 
°ved. A male rose-breasted grosbeak fought 
no her. It gave a note like squee squee . (Took 
wn a number of wood thrush notes, a harsh roll- 
tuck or pluck. 
Indigo buntings and phoebe's were very thick. 
June 9, 1901 - Sa turday . 
C J 1 ?? 8 m0rnin£r Cla rence "Cook and I drove down to 
urtiss’s to make a picture of some young owls. 
i n V/ f & grea1: number of vesper sparrows. They were 
u bl son g« A number of crows were flying 
thfi U + 1U * ^ aw a red-headed woodpeckers on 
9 telegraph poles. They had nests in them. 
d * eard a few grasshopper sparrows. Saw a single 
kcissel on a telephone wire. 
W ‘^ len ve got there the owls were dead. They 
bj e long'-eared owls. The nest was in a small 
ch » and looked like a crow's nest. It was 
a thick swampy piece of ground. 
lo v C i atbi f ds » brown thrashers and other thicket 
birds were there in great abundance. I 
oj> 1 ° lorov/n thrashers nests within a few rods 
° ther * Pound a young blue jay just out of 
shai neSt ’ It: Was 3ittin g on the ground in the 
Phot &nd When 1 t00k int0 the bright sun so be 
We^°? raphed it; turned his bill straight up and 
‘t to sleep. 
°he U u 8 r’ treaSted gr° s beaks were very thick. Saw 
killcleer. It acted as if it had a nest. 
•‘•ben we went home. 
