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May 4. Crested flycatchers are here. Red-eyed vireos and black- 
throated blue warblers are new. Found a nest with four meadowlark 
eggs. 
May 5. Catbirds, yellow warblers, and prothonotary warblers 
came in today. 
MAY 6. Yeilow-throats are new. 
May 7. Bobolinks and chestnut-sided warblers were arrivals. 
MAyY 8. Wood pewees are singing today. 
MAy 12. Orchard orioles finally arrived. 
May 18. Cuckoos are back. 
May 14. Hummingbirds are back feeding on the wild columbine. 
May 15. Nearly every box has young bluebirds. I banded 
seventy today. 
May 16. Banded one hundred sixty-five more bluebirds today. 
Carolina wrens have nest of five eggs in top of my well. 
MAy 17. Found several nests with full complements of upland 
plover eggs. 
May 20. Young cardinals are out of the nest. 
MAy 25. <A nest of wood ducks hatches today in Woodland ceme- 
tery. 
MAy 26. Cottonwood seeds are blowing and hummingbirds are 
building. 
JUNE 6. Bluebirds are starting their second nests. 
JUNE 13. Robins have second broods. Hummingbirds have eggs. 
JUNE 24. First gathering of blackbirds. 
JUNE 25. Young nighthawks are flying. 
JULY 7. Poisoning of grasshoppers with poison bran is followed 
by appearance of dozens of dead grackles and starlings under neigh- 
boring trees. 
JULY 8. This year there has been a noticeable invasion of mock- 
ingbirds; normally, nesting birds are rarities, but this year nearly 
every farm has a nesting pair. The drift extends as far north as 
Macomb, LaHarpe, and Dallas City. 
JULY 15. Martins are flocking. 
JULY 28. Recorded my first Arkansas kingbird although another 
was reported from Adams County several years ago by Russell Davis, 
the bird trap builder of Clayton. The new bird sat on a wire and 
allowed me to study it for five minutes at a twenty foot range. 
AvuGUST 10. Carolina wren babies are flying. 
AUGUST 20. Banded the last of young bluebirds. 
AuGusT 31. Found a nest with two miniature doves and another 
with eggs in it. The hunting season opens tomorrow. 
SEPTEMBER 4. Young doves are growing fast. Hope the mother 
isn’t shot. 
SEPTEMBER 5. Great flocks of blackbirds are attracted by the 
corn. 
SEPTEMBER 10. A _ great flight of northern nighthawks went 
south. The most of our local birds remained. 
OCTOBER 4. White-throats are back. 
