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were banded in the nest. May 4, buckeyes in bloom. May 5, big flight 
of small birds flying overhead tonight. Nighthawks here. Wild cherry 
blossoms add their odors to the air. May 6, new birds after the wave 
of last night: Red-eyed Vireo, Yellow Warbler, Prothonotary Warbler, 
Nashville Warbler, Orchard Oriole, Blue-winged Teal, Pectoral Sand- 
piper. May 7, new birds: Chestnut-sided Warbler, Catbird, Wood 
Pewee, Cape May Warbler, Wilson’s Warbler, Mourning Warbler, 
Least Flycatcher, Bell’s Vireo, Yellow-breasted Vireo, Redstart, Hum- 
ming Bird, Spotted Sandpiper. Bumblebee. Clearwing moths are out 
pollinating the Sweet Williams. A House Wren pulled four four-day-old 
Phoebes out of a nest under our cottage eaves. Indigo Buntings are merry 
on the telephone poles. May 7, Mr. Minear of Quincy High School 
caught fifteen rattlesnakes in a deserted quarry. Caught two eel, a fresh 
water drum and a catfish today. May 8, wood anemones and lilies-of- 
the-valley in full bloom. May 9, wake robin and cowslips bursting into 
bloom. Lark Sparrows and Cuckoos arrived at last. A few Scaup Ducks 
are still here. Bobolinks are sitting on the fences between the clover 
fields. May 11, June beetles are disputing the rights-of-way with auto- 
mobiles. May 12, a new odor tells us that black locusts are blooming. 
May 13, first fireflies. May 14, iris is in its glory. Wild larkspur is 
making the hillsides gorgeous. May 15, nature’s finest perfume is here 
—wild grapes are in bloom. May 16, bloodroot seed pods breaking. 
From twenty-four to forty mahogany seeds in each pod are carried away 
and planted by black ants. May 27, swamp white anemone in full bloom. 
May 28, showy orchis in bloom. 
June 2, a male Osprey was killed south of town. No record of a 
nest, however. Persimmons in bloom. June 3, a new odor—protect us 
from th stench of the tree of heaven! Young Nighthawks hatched today. 
June 7, wild iris is spotting the lowlands with blue. June 8, I picked 
a dozen caps of faun-colored pleutius (Cervinus) and had a meal such 
as only the elect enjoy. June 9, captured an albino immature Gracxle— 
sent specimen to Field Museum, Chicago. Found a nest of Prothonotary 
Warblers in an old rubber tire used as a bumper for boats on a dock. I 
banded the young birds. Cormorants sitting on eggs. Herons nearly 
full grown and crawling out on the limbs. I banded about fifty. In 
the fall, one of these, during its night migration, mistook an Oklahoma 
oil pond for water and plunged in. It was rescued and cleaned, later re- 
leased. June 12, the state road highways are heavy with color, with such 
blooming beauties as black-eyed susans,. cone flowers, meadow rue, red 
clover—oh, such a wonderful odor! daisy fleabane, spiderwort (in bloom 
during the morning only), yellow flowering sweet clover, wild parsnip. 
June 13, chestnuts in bloom. June 14, first rainbow. June 15, a new 
odor—basswood is in bloom; ’tis most delicate. June 19, saw a Bald 
Eagle attack a heronry. ‘The great parent birds bravely attacked the 
Eagle, which later alighted on a dead tree. Here the Red-wings and 
