on stakes r mud flat at x would have come up slough with tide shortly, but I hadn't time to stay. Peppered a Shrike on thistles on banks. Saw yest. what I suppose was (the first arrived) And. marble + Olive-sided Flycatcher on cr dead fine by trnnis but had no gun. Saw Wood Pewees week ago I think I heard Mst. Flycatcher to-day. Yest-to-day got glimpses of a "rigors" mm mud or hedge by big tanks, but appeared larger brown. Oct 6 Caught a female, going? R-8. Flicker in study. Had come down chimney as shafts were sooty. Physical condition Good. Oct 10. Heard Saw Kingfisher 7:45 a.m. flying over my back yard. "Crowned" Sparrows arriving- everything gone but N. Fitchers. N. H. Pewees? W. Flycatcher. Seen " " "about Oct 10" " later.