26 
May 
THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Kinglet, Blue Gray Gnatcatcher, Bank Swallow, and Myrtle Warb- 
lers. Little gray morels broke out today. Red Admirals and 
dragon flies are flying. Ninety-five out of one hundred and five 
boxes had Bluebirds in them, but only twenty-five are now occu- 
pied. The cold and snow certainly caused havoc. 
16. Bluets are in full bloom. Pectoral Sandpipers numerous. 
17. Golden-cr. Kinglets are thick today. Plenty of Coots, Blue- 
bills and Blue-winged Teals are still here. Great Blue Herons 
nesting. 
18. Grasshopper Sparrows and Savannahs have arrived. Found 
a nest with five albinistic Bluebird eggs. 
19. Swifts are here. Great swarms of male mosquitoes are fly- 
ing. 
20. Water-thrushes are common on Mill Creek. Picked a big 
mess of morels. Dutchman’s breeches, bluebells, Jacob’s ladder, 
and yellow violets are numerous. Water cress is particularly tasty. 
21. Vesper Sparrows back. Sparrow Hawks have eggs. 
22. Juncos still here. Ruby-crowned Kinglets singing. 
24. Creepers still here. House Wrens just arrived. Bats flying 
tonight. 
25. Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Kingbirds back, while the tree- 
tips are full of Goldfinches. Spring beauties and sweet William 
in fine bloom. Redbuds and white crabs in full bloom. Soft maple 
squirters full of sap. Wood Thrushes and Little Green Herons 
arrived this afternoon. 
26. Lots of morel mushrooms out. Buttercups and wake robins 
in woods. Strawberries are also blooming. Papilio turnis flying. 
Lark Sparrows and Barn Swallows are both here. 
27. Turkey Buzzards have eggs. Red and the White-eyed Vireos 
here, also Crested Flycatchers, Baltimore Oriole and Warbling 
Vireos are new. 
28. Found another box with white Bluebird eggs. Dickcissels 
Bobolinks, Cliff Swallows, Chats, Northern Yellowthroats, 
Prothonotary Warblers, and Florida Gallinules are new. Wild 
mustard is yellow while the catkins are hanging long on the 
shingle oaks. 
29. Buckeyes are blooming. Teal and Scaups are still here. 
Cowslips are lovely. Redstarts are busy gleaning bugs. 
30. A Prothonotary Warbler built in a freight car coupler. The 
train moved out however before the nest was completed. 
1. Catbirds are here. Wild apples, redbuds, and dogwoods are 
in full bloom. White clover blooms are dr eee bees. Tennessee 
Warblers are singing in the trees. 
2-3-4. “Rain. Put up sixteen Prothonotary Warbler boxes. Found 
ten pounds of morel mushrooms. Several were sixteen ounces in 
weight and ten inches tall. White-crowned Sparrow, Soras, Yel- 
low Warblers, Indigo Buntings, Black and White Warblers, Spot- 
ted Sandpipers, Bittern and Lesser Yellowlegs were new. 
