40 FHE- AUDUBON] BOD Eilts 
May 4. Carthage College just received an albino Double-crested 
Cormorant killed at Dallas City. Spotted cranesbill blooming in swamps 
while above, the hickories are covered with catkins, creeping cinquefoil 
is yellow. Literally millions of Goldfinches are singing in the tree 
tops, where they eat the elm seeds. First Indigo Bunting. Giant bull 
frogs are bellowing. Elm seeds are falling upon the blooming blue 
star grass. 
May 5. Chestnut-sided Warblers are back, while Bobolinks and 
Orchard Orioles are other later arrivals. Red-headed Woodpeckers are 
mating. Wild mustard, strawberries and wood sorrel add yellow, white 
and pink to the mosaic of color under foot. Willow trees have long 
yellow tassels swaying in the wind. The hillsides are heavy with sweet 
William while in the deeper woods Jacob’s ladder is beautifully blue. 
May 6. Walnuts and butternuts are in bloom. Fireflies are flash- 
ing and polyphemus moths are flying slowly over the tree tops. First 
young Robin is on the ground. 
May 7. Wild cherries are in full bloom. Saw an acre of blooming 
cowslips today, also pink oxalis, and wild red phlox. Up above the yel- 
low Papilio turnis fly high. 
May 8. Nashville and Tennessee Warblers, Least Sandpipers, and 
Wood Pewees arrived. 
May 9. A solitary Cerulean Warbler added its presence to the 
multitude of other wood warblers. Mosquitoes are very numerous. 
May 10. A Titmouse has a nest made of mouse and squirrel hair. 
As I lifted the box lid she hissed like a snake, causing me to drop the 
lid. A Robin built a nest in a bush through which a hog-tight fence 
had been stretched. The cross wire was So close on the top of the com- 
pleted nest that the mother could not sit on or in the nest but had 
laid two eggs which must have rolled into the nest from above. Cuckoos 
and Yellow-breasted Chats returned today. All the summer birds have 
now returned. The wild hyacinth is at its best. 
May 11. White larkspur and white clover are new additions to 
the white flowers. 
May 12. Black locusts are fragrant. Young Screech Owls are 
flying. 
May 18. Penstemon and spiderwort are in full bloom. 
May 16. Golden ragweeds, wild ginger and parsnips are in bloom. 
The wafer ash is showing inconspicuous flowers which will later be fine 
clusters of winged seeds. Great beds of red columbines attract multi- 
tudes of hummingbirds. Found two beds of pink water leaf, also num- 
erous shafts of spikenard. 
MAy 17. Bittersweet is in heavy bud. Honey bees are already 
busy over the tiny blossoms which have broken. Young Phoebes are 
flying. Home-grown strawberries were on the market today. 
May 18. Sweet cicely is at full bloom. Both polyphemus and 
luna moths are sailing haphazardly about. Yellow-wood trees are 
blooming. 
May 19. Found a Marsh Hawk’s nest with seven eggs nearly 
