{Return to diary when set up.} Lake Umbagog. Bronzed Grackle: 1909. June 5. At least 4 or 5 pairs of Bronzed Grackle are breeding in the Early nesting group of balsam firs standing on the island by my boat house. I watch of Bronze ed them for an hour or more to-day as they came and went across the Grackle water between the island anf the mainland, bringing food in their bills for their young and taking away from the nest the white excreta of the young which they dropped inthe lake as soon as they were well Beyond outside the outer ranks of aldets. The young in one of the nests must have been well grown to judge by the loud clamor they set up whenever their parents appeared. I saw one female Grackle carrying nesting material into the firs but all the others appeared to have young. Yet it is only 22 days since the lake was encased with ice, (it went out on May 14) and most of the country about it buried deep in snow. The Grackles appear to get most of their food in the farms of Upton Hill. The Bronzed Grackles nesting on my island do not appear {inoffensive} Bronzed to agree with Dr. Fisher in considering the Broad-Winged Hawk an intel- Grackle ligent burd, for I saw four or five of them leave their rookery to-day Mett a to pursue one of these Hawks across the lake with cries of indignation Broad winged and alarm. They pressed him hard at one time forcing him to twist Hawk. and double as they rose above and darted down at him in quick successsion, striking with their bills at his head and back. 87