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JANUARY 20. Five bald eagles are wintering south of the Keokuk 
dam. 
JANUARY 23. Killed a guinea hen today, the blood fell on the 
snow and coagulated. A robin hopped up and made a meal of the 
hardened blood. 
JANUARY 24. Titmice are singing “Peto” today. They are late 
this spring. Cardinals are singing and so are the Carolina wrens. 
JANUARY 31. Report of a melanistic cardinal today. This is the 
second record I have had in twenty-five years. 
FEBRUARY 1. A flock of three hundred rusty blackbirds passed 
over; also disturbed a flock of Lapland longspurs from the roadside. 
FEBRUARY 7. Red-headed woodpeckers have wintered here. I 
saw several today. 
FEBRUARY 11. Bluebirds, robins, and meadowlarks are back. 
Also saw a lone dove. Think it was a winter resident. 
FEBRUARY 13. Put Bluebird Route No. 1 in shape. Cleaned and 
painted forty-eight boxes. 
FEBRUARY 14. Started Bluebird Route No. 4 on old Wolf Ridge 
road. Added fourteen new boxes. 
FEBRUARY 16. There are great flocks of horned larks everywhere 
about the upland farms. The ice is out of the river. 
FEBRUARY 18. Migrant shrikes are back. 
FEBRUARY 20. Rain, thunder and lightning today. 
FEBRUARY 21. Big flocks of bluebirds have arrived. Also the 
advance guard of marsh hawks is here. 
FEBRUARY 28. Put up another route of bluebird boxes toward 
Hamilton, thirty-four in all. 
MARCH 8. Saw first killdeer. 
MARCH 4. Robins and bluebirds are back in full quota. Sparrow 
hawks are back also. Heard the singing of purple finches today. 
Many shrikes are back in the hedge rows. 
MArcH 6. Great flight of pintail, mallard, and black ducks has 
passed over. 
MARCH 7. Saw an irregular flock of American crossbills. Flick- 
ers and red-wings are singing. Saw first white-throats and also jack- 
snipe. Frogs are singing. 
MARCH 8. Robins are singing. Roy Knoepple, Superintendent 
of Schools at Hamilton, has extended my bluebird route of boxes from 
Hamilton to Nauvoo by adding forty-three more boxes. 
MARCH 11. Saw a wild male ring-necked pheasant in full 
plumage today. 
MARCH 138. Brooks Terrell, biology teacher of Quincy High 
School, added a new route of bluebird boxes adding thirty boxes from 
Payson to New Canton, Illinois. 
MarcH 19. Saw first grackle. Great flocks of starlings and red- 
wings are present. 
MARCH 21. Grackles are flocking in. Added twenty bluebird 
boxes on the Perry route. 
