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Omaha Bird Records, Feb.-May, 1903

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wonders never cease. I have seen men leading dogs and dogs leading men; but never
before have I seen a man leading a cat. Here he came, with the vast yearn of the mentally
incompetent to find something, anything, interesting in this bare life. The birds
set up a plaintive whistle, and I hastened to the cat-leader to set forth in cool
politeness, hiding a boil of wrath, the ethics of the case as I saw them, and to urge
him to cat-lead in another direction. He was entirely agreeable and friendly, and
I flatter myself that I appeared so.

Heard the eastern meadowlark in the fields to the south.

Noon. — Elizabeth, Miss Weaver,
eastern meadow lar, Trostler and I, started
prairie horned lark 6 for Albright. It began to
robin 10 sprinkle before we got there,
tree sparrow 10 and I questioned the advisability
towhee 10 of going farther until
field sparrow 10 the weather gave promise of
crow 10 improvement; but Elizabeth is
chickadee 10 harder to head off than a
cardinal 10 prairie fire, and we kept on.
downy woodpecker 10 Half way down the long path to
chipping sparrow 10 the bottomlands the rain began,
red-tailed hawk 10 and it was the real thing.
osprey 10 It seemed best to remain quietly
great blue heron 10 under the umbrella for a
flicker 10 time, but as that was poor
broad-winged hawk 10 protection for two girls we finally
turkey vulture 10 went on, and a hundred yards
phoebe 10 farther along found a cave which
bluebird 10 was a real protection. Perversity
chimney swift 10 dictated that as soon as
cowbird 10 we were snugly stowed in this
red-winged blackbird 10 the rain should stop, which it
ducks sp. 10 did, and we went on. The rest
Title
Omaha Bird Records, Feb.-May, 1903
Description
Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives
Identifier
27355