Tete ACU Di BO Ne BU TE BIN 27 
fo 1934 Nature Diary 
By Dr. T. E. MussELMAN 
January 6—Continued warm weather gave me a list of thirty-one birds 
on my first 1934 trip. All the regular-winter visitors were recorded with 
additions of a Red-breasted Nuthatch, Wilson’s Snipe, a flock of thirty 
Bluebirds, a Carolina Wren, two Bald Eagles, and a Northern Pileated 
Woodpecker. 
January 7—Cardinals and Titmice awakened me today singing their 
spring songs. 
January 19—Saw additional Bluebirds and three Pileated Wood- 
peckers and a stray Red-headed Woodpecker today. Watercress is tempt- 
ingly green and crisp. 
January 20—Covered my cycle of twenty-four Bluebird boxes, put 
new tops on several and painted all in readiness for an early return of 
birds. Likewise I have forty-six additional boxes to be placed. 
January 22—First flocks of Canada Geese flew over. Several farmers 
report Doves wirtering about their feeding troughs. Likewise one Mock- 
ingbird has wintered at the feeding tray of Mrs. Klarner at 30th and 
State Road. 
February 5—Mallards, Pintail, and Golden-eyes common. Saw an- 
other mature Bald Eagle. 
February 10—Sap is flowing from the maple trees, and honey bees are 
drinking their fill of this laxative. Saw three Barrow’s Golden-eyes. Small 
flight of Evening Grosteaks reported. A few Redpolls tugging at the Syca- 
more seed balls. 
February 11—Saw my first Migrant Shrike. Ducks are concentrated 
in numbers. First Robin eating berries of a deciduous holly tree. 
February 25—Heavy snow. Quail suffering. I went to several farms 
and cleaned snow and scattered corn on sites which the Quail had been 
using. 
February 27—Hundreds cf Horned Larks and some Lapland Long- 
spurs are feeding along the state hard roads where the scrapers had dug the 
ground. Many coveys of Quail have taken to the hard roads where an 
abundance of soy beans have been scattered by farm trucks. 
March 1—A Great Horned Owl’s nest with three eggs nearly incu- 
bated was found in St. Anthony Grove. 
March 4—Mild weather. The south wind brought in many birds. 
Flickers are singing and dancing. Bluebirds and Robins are here in large 
numbers. Killdeers are running in the muddy pastures, and their plaintive, 
“Kill-dee-dee,” can be heard through the moist night air. Ladybugs and 
Grasshoppers are out. First thunder and lightning. Redwings are flying 
over in flocks. 
March 6—First Robins singing. 
