42 TA tA1U DIOR ON Tea eagles 
JUNE 12. Service berry in fruit while wahoo is blooming. Male 
sumach also is in heavy head. 
JUNE 13. Plantain is in full seed. Day lilies opened today. Male 
mosquitoes are flying. Today was a Quail day. Many nests incubated. 
JUNE 14. Black raspberries are ripe. The cutting of sweet clover 
has filled the air with a new and delicious odor. Ash leaves are taking 
a purple hue. Vervain is blue in isolated plants. Great milkweed 
clusters are beautiful pink. I set twenty Quail eggs under my bantam 
hen. 
JUNE 15. Poke berries are beginning to blossom. 
JUNE 16. First cicadas. 
JUNE 17. Caught a Sphinx modesta. 
JUNE 19. Caught two large-mouth black bass, four and three 
pounds. The female was loaded with eggs. 
JUNE 20. Willow-flies are out. 
JUNE 21. Banded eighty baby Bluebirds. Mothers are feeding 
them grasshoppers and crickets almost entirely. Found a new tree 
with little plum-shaped drupes—a wild olive, Adelia acuminata. 
JUNE 22. Virginia day-flower is today’s addition to the list of 
flowers. 
JUNE 26. Many young Nighthawks down on the ground. Dobson- 
flies on wing. 
JUNE 27. Catnip blooming. 
JUNE 28. Young Kingbirds flying. Bergamot and horse nettle 
in bloom. Banded five young Cooper’s Hawks about ready to fly. Camo- 
mile and volunteer buckwheat blooming. 
JULY 4. Banded fifty more baby Bluebirds. One nest had four 
normal eggs with a tiny albino egg about half the size of its com- 
panions. 
JULY 5. Digger wasps are out. There seems a definite relation- 
ship between the appearance of these wasps and the cicadas. First 
wild blackberries. 
JULY 6. Sourwood is in bloom. 
JULY 10. Young Red-headed Woodpeckers are out and flying. 
JULY 11. Crickets chirping. 
JULY 14. American Egrets are back. 
JULY 15. Peppermint is in bloom. 
JULY 16. Captured a miniature Black Rail half grown, the third 
I have banded about this age. It has red eyes with black pupils. 
JULY 19. Ironweed is in bloom. 
JULY 20. It is hot. Every thing is seared. 
JULY 21. Blackbirds have started flocking. 
JULY 25. Two Mockingbirds nested this year at Clayton. 
JULY 26. Frogs have ceased singing although toads still sing and 
some are still laying eggs. Red horse minnows are active in the creek 
rapids. 
JULY 28. I caught a Specodina abbotii around a rind of a honey 
dew melon. 
