32 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
May 20—Red Clover very fine and fragrant. Winged Dock (Rumex 
venosiis )—a stray from the west—is in beautiful bloom. 
May 23—Catalpas in bloom. 
May 24—Swamp Burr Weed blooming. 
May 25—Bloodroot seeds are being carried by ants. 
May 26—Wild Pansies in bloom. 
May 27—Poison Ivy blooming. 
May 28—Field Wild Roses pink with blossom. 
May 30—Camomile, Venus Mirror, Corn Cockle, and English Plan- 
tain blooming. 
June 4—Elderberries white with flower. 
June 8—Moth Mullein and Trumpet-vine blooming. 
June 9—First Black-eyed Susans. Banded thirty-five young Great 
Blue Heron. Studied fish regurgitated by young herons. “Chey were 
largely Hickory Shad, a few Carp, several Sunfish, one Cat, and one Bass. 
Ninety-five per cent of the food was rough fish or Crawfish. Small fish 
are regurgitated by parents. An occasional large fish is carried in their 
beaks. Butterfly Weed in bloom. 
June 12—First Cicadas. 
June 17—Vervain blooming. 
June 18—Found a second set of white eggs in Bluebird box No. 27 
from the same banded mother. 
June 19—Chestnut trees in bloom. 
June 21—Leadweed, Prairie Dock and Burning Poker in bloom. 
June 22—-Young Sparrow Hawks and Nighthawks out of nests. 
June 23—Jimson Weed and Bergamot blooming. Oswega ‘Tea, Cone 
Flowers, and Cow Vetch in bloom. 
June 26—Diggers Wasps building their tunnels. Cicadas (their vic- 
tims) are singing. 
Month of July—Too hot to record. Young Quail died from lack of 
water. Everything seared brown. Bluebirds’ eggs deserted in the nest. 
Eggs cooked. 
August 18—Slightly cooler. First fall rain. Fiddler Catfish biting. 
Fine growth of Campestis Mushrooms—many fairy rings. Puftballs numer- 
ous and fine. 
August 24—Eels biting. River alive with White Herons, Little 
Blues and an occasional Egret. Coprinus Mushrooms around every stump. 
August 25—Least and Caspian Terns here. 
August 31—Snakeroot, Bindweed, Jimson Weed, and Whorled Muilk- 
weed are all blooming white. The grass leafed Golden Rod added yellow 
to the roadside. Partridge Peas appear richer with spots of orange. False 
Wild Dragon Head showed pink while dainty clusters of Culver’s Speed- 
well added dainty color and gentle odor to the air. 
September 2—Had a hard rain with myriads of night crawlers coming 
up from the hard earth for a spree in the dripping grass. Catfish are biting. 
