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16. Doves singing. First Martins and Grackles. Hepaticas and 
dandelions in bloom. 
19. Field Sparrows, Phoebes, and Purple Finches back and sing- 
ing. 
20. First White-throated Sparrows. Today brot in a terrific 
dust storm. Gnats were thick, spattering up my windshield. 
21. Equinox. First Brown Thrasher, and Chewinks, with 
White-throats singing. 
22. Bewick’s Wrens arrived. Several Bluebird boxes have nests 
ready for eggs. 
23. Snakes are out in quantities. 
24. Spring beauties, anemones, dog toothed violets are in bloom. 
Sapsuckers are girdling trees with holes. Pieris and Antiopia 
butterflies are out. Box elder and ironwood trees are blooming, 
also yellow cordalis. Chipping Sparrows and Wilson’s Snipe are 
new. 
26. Today I enjoyed the greatest experience in years. I travelled 
across the river. A farmer boy told me that a strange long- 
legged yellowish goose or duck had flown into his barnyard dur- 
ing the heavy dust storm of March 20. I stopped to see the bird 
and found a Fulvous Tree Duck fraternizing with the ducks. The 
geese wouldn’t tolerate it. It remained for several weeks and 
was studied at close range by many bird students before it took 
wing again for the Southwest. 
27. Shadbush in bloom. Redbuds are dropping the last year 
seed pods. 
28. Hard maples are in full bloom. Red-tailed Hawks have eggs. 
31. Thirty-two out of forty boxes in one unit now have Bluebird 
nests. Eggs are in some. Upland Plovers arrive. 
April 
1. Great flocks of Bluebills are here. Estimated ten thousand 
of them are feeding on Lake Cooper. Coots are also numerous. 
Juncos in the light brown color are here. : 
6. First Coprinus mushrooms are numerous about old stumps. 
7. Heavy snow and cold. Bluebirds have suffered. Found sev- 
eral dead on their nests. Several others brought in to me by 
farmers. 
8. Hermit Thrushes here. Increased numbers of Sapsuckers, 
also Tree Sparrows. 
9. Most Juncos are gone. Brown Creepers still here. 
10. Big rain. Increase in Coots. Saw five Golden Plover, sev- 
eral Greater Yellowlegs and one Jack Snipe. Redbud trees begin- 
ning to show color. 
12. Box 75 has a single pink-white egg. Herring Gulls are fol- 
lowing plows about the farms, eating grubs. 
13. Brown Thrashers are singing. Broiled three caps of Pleu- 
rotus cervinus. 
14. Found a wounded Blue Goose at Goose Lake. New birds to- 
day: Pied-billed Grebe, Cormorants, Swamp Sparrow, Ruby-cr. 
