28 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
July 
28. Found a box turtle gorging itself on a huge Boletus mush- 
room. 
August 
6. Banded the last of my young Bluebirds. 
16. Tortoise shell caterpillars are stripping Chinese elms of 
leaves. 
25. Cardinal flowers are lovely in the bottoms. 
26. Snow on the Mountain is white about the fields. 
27. Have seen very few of the Little Blue Herons, Egrets, and 
Snowy Egrets which normally are so common during this month. 
I believe this is because of the very high water. 
September 
2. I set seventeen Quail eggs under a Bantam hen. 
7. Spanish needle is at its best. Fields are literally yellow 
with it. 
8. Osprey here. Red-eye Vireos and Redstarts are on their way 
south. Primroses are in fine color. 
10. Great growth of Agaricus campestris today. Hundreds of 
persons are eating wild mushrooms today. Many immature Wood 
Ducks are flying. 
13. Big southward flight of Nighthawks; local birds still here. 
Tree Swallows gathering on wires. 
14. Tremendous flight of May flies and leaf hoppers. 
15. Caspian Tern gathering in small flocks on the sand bars. 
Killdeer flocking. Big flight of Swifts. 
22. Hickory nuts are falling. Yellow sunflowers, Michelmas 
daisies, little white fall asters are very fine. House Wrens, Rose- 
breasted Grosbeak, and Nighthawks are still here. 
28. Goatweed butterflies abundant. 
29. Brown Creepers, Catbirds, and Nighthawks are still here. 
Swifts flocking in tremendous numbers. 
October 
4. Big flight of small birds. Juncos and White-throats here. 
9. Chestnuts are falling. Pawpaws are ripe. 
10. Cobwebs are flying. 
12. Snakes are moving to their winter homes. Have found sev- 
eral ring-necks, pretty blue and red creatures. 
16. Pennyroyal seed falling. Ruby-crowned Kinglets singing. 
17. Swifts gone. Lots of Myrtle Warblers. 
18. Big flight of Cormorants. 
23. Great Blue Herons took off for the Southland. 
27. Scaup and Mergansers back. 
28. Extra: Three men hunting on a sandbar south of Quincy 
saw a flock of large black and white birds flying along the bar. 
They killed two and brought them to me for identification. They 
were a pair of American Avocets, winter plumage. I can find but 
three sight records for Illinois. 
30. Redheads, Canvas-backs, and Golden-eyes are here. 
