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OcTOBER 4. Saw a Sparrow Hawk catching grasshoppers, also a 
Sharp-shinned Hawk picking a smal] bird. 
OCTOBER 5. Last of the Nighthawks. Fall violets are blooming. 
OCTOBER 9. All White-throats are gone. 
OCTOBER 12. The Swifts left today. 
OCTOBER 13. Great flocks of Snow Geese flew over last night. 
OCTOBER 16. Black haws are in full berry. 
OCTOBER 17. Maple leaves are falling. 
OCTOBER 18. An 18 pound polyporus mushroom was brought to 
me today. Lovely little magenta Gaillardia in bloom. Saw a late Field 
Sparrow. 
OCTOBER 22. First killing frost. Big duck migration. 
OCTOBER 25. Soft trees have lovely coloring, acorns sprouting. 
OCTOBER 26. A Bald Eagle was killed feeding on a dead baby pig. 
NOVEMBER 1. A Golden Eagle passed over several blinds. 
NOVEMBER 3. Franklin Gulls invaded the country as usual at this 
season. 
NOVEMBER 5. Catching wall-eyed pike at the Canton Dam. Golden- 
eyes and Snow Geese were killed today. 
NOVEMBER 9. Saw a flock of several thousand female Red-wing 
Blackbirds. 
NOVEMBER 10. A three and a half pound Medusa-head mushroom 
was brought to me. 
NOVEMBER 11. Saw 18 Killdeer today. 
NOVEMBER 13. <A few Bluebirds and Killdeer are still here, also 
Flickers and a scattered group of Red-headed Woodpeckers. 
NOVEMBER 16. It freezes each night now. 
NOVEMBER 20. Thousands of ducks are still on the Illinois River 
as well as a few Cormorants and a Coot or two and one Great Blue 
Heron. 
NOVEMBER 28. Examined a number of rabbits, no trace of tula- 
remia this year. 
DECEMBER 5. Snow, sleet and rain. 
DECEMBER 12. Mild; travelled in the country to paint one hundred 
Bluebird boxes. 
DECEMBER 15. Two more Eagles killed. It seems that the aver- 
age man with a gun cannot resist the opportunity to knock down our 
national bird. The excuse is always the same, that eagles carry away 
babies, lambs and little pigs, and are dangerous. Why can’t Congress 
protect what few of these great birds are left? 
Quincy. 
