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MARCH 22. The first martins and cowbirds are here. Doves are 
singing. 
MARCH 24. Shoveller ducks have arrived. 
MARCH 25. Employed this snowy day to add twenty more blue- 
bird boxes to the Perry route. The sum total is nearly five hundred 
boxes in all. 
MARCH 26. Great blue herons are back. 
APRIL 4. Coots are back; also an increase in herons. 
APRIL 5. Kingfishers and phoebes are hunting over the sloughs 
and creeks. 
APRIL 6. A solitary turkey vulture flew over today. 
APRIL 7. Lark sparrows and pied-billed grebes are back. 
APRIL 8. Bewick’s wrens are hunting nesting sites about the 
sheds. Blue-winged teal are in every wayside ditch. Towhees and fox 
sparrows are back also. ~ 
APRIL 9. Sapsuckers are girdling pine and fruit trees. Today I 
found the first bluebird egg. . 
APRIL 11. Snow geese, baldpate, wood ducks, grasshoppers, spar- 
rows, clay-colored sparrows, Henslow’s sparrows, swamp sparrows, 
tree swallows, winter wrens, hermit thrushes, ruby-crowned kinglets 
are new today. 
APRIL 14. Barn swallows are investigating the rafters of my 
barn. 
APRIL 15. Bank swallows just arrived. 
APRIL 16. Brown thrashers, water thrush, swifts, chipping spar- 
rows, and cliff swallows are new. Buzzards are laying eggs in the 
holes along the bottom-land bluifs. 
APRIL 17. House wrens came in on the south wind last night. 
Field sparrows are perched on last year’s mullein stalks singing their 
songs. Fox sparrows left today. 
APRIL 18. Myrtle warblers are hunting in the tree tops. Juncos 
are still here. 
APRIL 23. Rose-breasted grosbeaks are singing today and nip- 
ping the swelling buds while the first blue-gray gnatcatchers are 
lisping high up in the tree tops. 
APRIL 24. Two beauties arrived today—wood thrushes and the 
scarlet tanagers. | 
APRIL 26. Hundreds of red-headed woodpeckers arrived today. 
APRIL 27. Little green herons and yellow-headed blackbirds are 
both new to the swamps today. 
APRIL 28. Blue-gray gnatcatchers arrived in numbers today. 
APRIL 29. Kingbirds arrived with the warbling vireos. 
APRIL 30. Nighthawks are sweeping the skies. 
MAy 1. Crested fiycatchers, gallinules, dickcissels, and Baltimore 
orioles are new to the woods, water, and fields. 
May 3. Upland plovers have selected nest sites on top of grassy 
ridges. White-throats are singing. 
