28 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Photograph by A. M. Bailey 
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK 
March 7—Light snow. Saw fifteen hundred Starlings in one pasture. 
March 8—First Meadowlark singing. 
March 9—Mourning Doves are here and singing. 
March 10—Big increases in Meadowlarks and Robins. 
March 11—Plenty of Rusty Blackbirds here. rin 
March 13—Maples in bloom. Pussywillows bursting. “Today is a 
flock day with groups of Redwings, Grackles, Cowbirds, and Robins. First 
Colias Butterflies. First White Pelicans. 
March 15—Hundreds of Herring Gulls and a few Ring-billed Gulls 
are walking about the river bars hunting for fish. Crows likewise add 
variety to the birds eating dead shad and carp. 
