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July 27, 1937 (cont') We then walked up to sharp shinned Hawk nest and saw one of the youngsters take its first flight. Fully feathered but tail short & down still evident on top of head & breast. They have developed fast. When we took them from the nest on the 18th they were all downy white but wing & tail quills barely showing. On the 24th when we killed the two captives a few breast & back feathers showed & wing & tail quills half developed. Today one of those in the nest could fly & was fully feathered out except for length of tail. 1. Loon 1 + 2 = 3 2. Herring Gull 1 + 1 = 2 3. Black throated Green Warbler 1 + 2 = 3 4. B " " [[dittos for: Black throated]] Blue " [[ditto for: Warbler]] 3 + 2 = 5 5. Canada Warbler 1 6. Redstart 3 + 6 in PM = 9 7. Olive backed thrush 1 8. Red eyed Vireo 1 + 2 in PM = 3 9. Kingfisher 1 10. Chickadee 1 + 10 in PM = 11 11. Sharp shinned Hawk 3 12 Blackburnian Warbler 6 13. Chimney Swift 3 B & White Warbler 5 14 Tree Swallow 10 15 Barn swallow 1 16 Nighthawk 2 17 Red breasted Merganser 1 ad [[male symbol]] + 2 yg Fished with Clara in evening but got only 1 small bass. Heavy wind. Had a very close view of the ad [[male symbol]] merganser & 2yg. not [[more?]] 15 yds. Swallows appeared over the lake for