30 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
from Adams County. Saw fifty-six varieties of birds today. Pied-billed 
Grebes, Phoebes, and Swamp Sparrows were new. Box Elders and Cotton- 
woods in full bloom. 
April 9—First Swifts. 
April 10—Forsythia, Shadbush and White Violets in bloom. Least 
Sandpipers probing the muddy banks of the streams. Saw several Semi- 
palmated Plovers. 
April 15—First bats. Other first arrivals:—Savannah Sparrows, 
Semi-palmated Sandpiper, Myrtle Warbler, Lesser Yellow-legs, Pectoral 
and Solitary Sandpipers, and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. My list today totaled 
fifty-two varieties with Red-headed Woodpeckers here in quantities. 
Shepherds’ Purse in bloom, Christmas Ferns uncurling their fuzzy fronds. 
Last Sunday, the eighth, I put up a Bluebird box. “oday the nest was com- 
plete with three blue eggs. Quick work. 
April 16—First Bartramian Sandpiper and Whip-poor-wills. 
April 17/—Redbud trees particularly fine. Kiefer Pears breaking into 
bloom. Flocks of Lesser Yellow-legs common. 
April 18—Barn Swallows here. Enjoyed my first mess of Inky Cap 
Mushrooms. Water Thrushes singing and tipping along the creeks. The 
Bluebird which laid white eggs in box 13 last year has completed a clutch 
of five creamy white eggs in box 27 this year. 
April 19—Robins building. Wild Plums in bloom. Enjoyed my first 
mess of Asparagus. Sweet Williams in bloom. 
April 20—Dogetooth Violets, Wake Robins, Cherries, and Peaches 
blooming. Night air fragrant with lovely odors. 
April 21—Male House Wrens here. Adders Tongue in full bloom. 
April 22—Comron Terns hunting water larvae at end of river dikes. 
Coots abundant. First Morel Mushrooms. Little blue butterflies, Turnis 
and Asterias Swallow-tails, and Dragon Flies numerous. Vesper Sparrows 
are migrating through. Saw and studied what I consider the only Greater 
Scaup Duck that has ever come to my attention at this location. 
April 24—First Traill’s Flycatcher. 
April 25—Persimmons in bloom. Cliff Swallows here. 
April 26—Saw last Junco. White-throated Sparrows and Grass- 
hopper Sparrows singing. 
April 27—Saw a pair of Legless Lizards (Glass Snakes). First Lark 
Sparrows and Dickcissels. Chickadees carrying Red Fox Squirrel hair into 
tox No. 7 for nesting material. “Titmice using mouse hair in box No. 17. 
April 29—Plenty of Scaups and some Blue-winged Teals here. First 
Baltimore Orioles. Apple and Dogwood trees in full bloom. Wild Ginger 
in bloom. While driving I paralleled the flight of a Red-headed Wood- 
pecker going at twenty-five miles an hour. 
May 1—Rose-breasted Grosbeaks arrived (a week late) also Warbling 
Vireos, Catbirds, Indigo Buntings, and Yellow-headed Blackbirds. Chick- 
