Omaha Bird Records, Feb.-May, 1903

Item

19

help itself to food, though it greatly prefers to be fed.

Today a boy brought us a mature female sparrow which had been injured in some way
about one wing. He had kept it for sometime, and was afraid that it could not fly.
We turned it loose in the bird-room, and find that while it is weak, it still can
fly well. It is at once perfectly at home, and its advent has set the two males at
swords’ points.

May 10

purple martin						Elizabeth and I went to
chipping sparrow						Childs’ Point this morning at 10
wren						o’clock, following our usual
red-wgd. blackbird						route. The weather was clear
yellow warbler						when we started. Migration is in
bluejay						full swing; we noted forty-five
towhee						species of birds, and doubtless
chimney swift						the list would have been larger
scarlet tanager						but for the unfavorable weather
cowbird						of the afternoon.
brown thrasher						We had barely reached Mill
wood thrush						Hollow when it began to rain
Baltimore oriole						lightly, but with threat of more
goldfinch						to come, so we raced up the valley
chat						to find shelter if possible
indigo bunting						at a little hut which we remembered,
yellowthroat						near the Bellevue road.
dove						This hut proved to be occupied
Harris sparrow						by a poor old man, and was in a
red-eyed vireo						deplorable state — no floor,
white-eyed vireo						barely high enough for one to
field sparrow						stand upright, and filled to its
crow						capacity with traps and calamities
cuckoo (yel.billed?)						of all kinds. The owner
Bell’s vireo						was hospitable enough, but seemed
hairy woodpecker						pathetically disturbed over the
cerulean warbler						poor accommodations which he had

Title

Omaha Bird Records, Feb.-May, 1903

Date

Feb.-May, 1903

Creator

Frank Shoemaker

Description

Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives

Identifier

321301

Transcription

19 help itself to food, though it greatly prefers to be fed. Today a boy brought us a mature female sparrow which had been injured in some way about one wing. He had kept it for sometime, and was afraid that it could not fly. We turned it loose in the bird-room, and find that while it is weak, it still can fly well. It is at once perfectly at home, and its advent has set the two males at swords' points. May 10 purple martin Elizabeth and I went to chipping sparrow Childs' Point this morning at 10 wren o'clock, following our usual red-wgd. blackbird route. The weather was clear yellow warbler when we started. Migration is in bluejay full swing; we noted forty-five towhee species of birds, and doubtless chimney swift the list would have been larger scarlet tanager but for the unfavorable weather cowbird of the afternoon. brown thrasher We had barely reached Mill wood thrush Hollow when it began to rain Baltimore oriole lightly, but with threat of more goldfinch to come, so we raced up the valley chat to find shelter if possible indigo bunting at a little hut which we remembered, yellowthroat near the Bellevue road. dove This hut proved to be occupied Harris sparrow by a poor old man, and was in a red-eyed vireo deplorable state - no floor, white-eyed vireo barely high enough for one to field sparrow stand upright, and filled to its crow capacity with traps and calamities cuckoo (yel.billed?) of all kinds. The owner Bell's vireo was hospitable enough, but seemed hairy woodpecker pathetically disturbed over the cerulean warbler poor accommodations which he had

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