ana occasionally a few would up untill about 300 
Or 400 feet up and then circle around call 
e *citedly. At times 200 or more would light on 
^he side of the schoolhouse in the sun and fairly 
Slackened it. They were in continual motion 
coming and going constantly, as if with a com on 
^topulse they would leave the building calling 
loudly, circle a few times and then go back. 
Their notes made a great volume of sound. They 
seemed to consider me as an enemy and circled 
r °Und and round ny head calling angrily. The 
w hole air seemed full of them. Their notes were 
P gw pew chu chu and cha . 
V/arren Fiske came down to his pasture. I 
8 hov/ed hir-i some bobolinks and he called them 
s kunk blackbird rather an unpleasant name. 
July 21, 1901 - Sun day. 
This morning after breakfast I went dov/n on 
eeley's Peninsula. It was warm and sunny. Some 
c &tbirds seemed much agitated and I soon found 
a young evidently just out of the nest. It could 
ly a little but progressed mostly by hops from 
one twig to another. It had very long legs and 
o tail to speak of. It flitted its wings when it 
lew exactly like an old one. I tried to catch 
hut could not. It fell into the water but 
s °on scrambled out nowise the worse. The upper 
Parts were very dark slaty grey, head and tail 
a rker and wings a little lighter than back. The 
hnderparts were more ashy. 
July 26, 1901 - Sunday. 
'j-his morning I went down in the fields after 
re akfast. It was a trifle too hot for comfort 
no ** man y birds were out. Saw a meadowlark 
basing a kingbird and for once the latter 
a Ppeared to be afraid. 
Heard a catbird give a fall note like tsil. 
e y keep rather close nowndays. 
tho iIeard the trembling, quavering fall song of 
e song sparrow. 
b ^ S 0 f^ PPl8S and <sulTCrs with a f 0v . 
clear music and taken all together 
