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Omaha Bird Records, Feb.-May, 1903

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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
Description
Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives
Identifier
27360