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ready to incubate. Ground ivy and dragon arum are blooming. White 
swamp cranesbill is lovely in the bottoms. 
May 20. Nighthawks still booming. Goatsbeard blooming. 
May 21. Daisy fleabane, yarrow, and yellow flowering sweet clover 
in fresh bloom. 
May 28. Red clover in full bloom everywhere. Horned Larks are 
feeding young. Bedstraw, English plantain, and pecans are blooming. 
May 24. Willow amsonia or dogbane is in bloom with silverspot 
butterflies feeding on the nectar. Carp are still spawning. Leopard 
frogs are everywhere in the grass. Swamp milkweed is dull white. 
False indigo is particularly heavy now. In the wheat fields, corn cockle 
shows an abundance of pink blossom. Giant bullfrogs are booming and 
the females are spawning. Upland the osage hedge is in bloom. Catal- 
pas are lovely. 
MAY 25. Cottonwood seeds are blowing. Native small dogwood is 
a lovely white in color and sweet in odor. 
MAy 26. Poison ivy is blooming. Found a Prothonotary Warbler 
nesting in a can stuck in a willow tree. Puccoon and heart-shaped um- 
brella-wort are both coloring the sandy plots along the cliffs. Papilio 
cresphontes and luna moths are at their best. Cow parsnips are just 
opening. 
May 28. First ox-eye daisies and wild iris blooming. 
May 29. Cow lilies are at bloom in mud ponds, also snakeroot 
blooming in the sandy soil. 
May 380. MHeal-all mint and hairy ruellia blooming. Bell’s Vireos 
have eggs, mother deserted because of presence of a Cowbird egg. Of 
the seven eggs in the Marsh Hawk nest, one little bird has emerged. 
JUNE 2. Great flight of Morman-flies. They hang a foot deep 
on the river side of posts. Meadow rue is lacy and white. 
JUNE 38. Hollyhocks and yellow daisies are blooming. Baby Shrikes 
are now on the fence wires. Seeds of wild hyacinths are falling. Lilac 
trees are blooming—a gorgeous sight. 
JUNE 4. First elderberries in bloom. Three little hawks and 
three eggs now remain in the Marsh Hawk’s nest. One egg disappeared. 
The young are of different sizes being incubated on different days. The 
brown mother dipped and shrieked at my approach while higher up was 
the blue and white father which rattled his objections but did not come 
close. 
JUNE 8. Moth mullein, black-eyed Susans, and the first Queen 
Ann’s lace. 
JUNE 9. Trumpet vines invite the humming birds. Wild straw- 
berries juicy and ripe. j 
JUNE 10. Cone-flowers are lovely. Found a male Quail covering 
a set of ten eggs. The female was killed by a mower: Yellow cactus 
and golden aster are blooming. Bluegrass is dropping its ripe seed. 
Luna caterpillars are out. Bouncing bet is blooming everywhere. 
JUNE 11. Mullein is yellow with blossom, also New Jersey tea 
and butterfly weed. 
