A Second Intensive Ornithological Survey of a Typical Square Mile of Cultivated Prairie, after a Ten Year Interval

This paper presents a report of a second intensive ornithological survey over a square mile of cultivated prairie. The first survey was made on July 25 and 26, 1916, by Dr. Arthur R. Abel, who was at that time a student in Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa. The report of this survey was published in the Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, Vol. XXVII, 1920, pages 385 to 393 inclusive. It was thought that a repeated survey over the same ground after an interval of ten years, would be both interesting and important. It was not possible for the writer of this paper to be in this territory on the same dates as those chosen by Dr. Abel; therefore, a number of discrepancies which may appear in this report may be attributed to the difference in time. The present survey was made on June 10, 1926

Forest Scenes

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Twelve Hundred Miles of Winter Birds

During January of the present year (1930) I had occasion to drive from New Hampton, Iowa, to Canastota, New York, a distance in direct line of perhaps not over a thousand miles, but with the inclusion of side trips and an occasional detour, about two hundred miles was added. I left New Hampton at noon, January 16th, and arrived at Canastota the evening of January 25th. A list of the birds seen enroute was closely kept. Most of those observed were seen from the road as I was driving along, but some were added when I would stop for a day or two to visit with friends and to take an occasional excursion into the fields and woods

Birds of Wapello County, Iowa

Wapello County is located in the southeast part of Iowa with one county between it and the Iowa-Missouri line and three counties east of it between it and the Mississippi river. It is bounded on the north by Mahaska and Keokuk Counties, on the east by Jefferson County, on the south by Davis County, and on the west by Monroe County. Its county seat is Ottumwa. The Des Moines River flows diagonally across the county from northwest to southeast. It is quite heavily timbered for most of its course, affording an excellent route for the migration of birds common to the timbered regions. As its tributaries in the immediate vicinity of Ottumwa it has Sugar Creek on the eastern edge of the city, Harrow\u27s Branch on the western edge and Bear Creek flowing into the river from the South. As the river approaches the city from the northwest, it makes a great bend to the east, returning to its diagonal course at about the centre of the city. The land in the interior of this bend has been platted in part as an addition to Ottumwa and is known as Central Addition. At the time of my observations, Central Addition had not been developed to any great extent, and as the land it included was quite low and marshy, a great thicket of willow saplings and underbrush had grown up making shelter for a great variety of birds in their season, especially for the warblers. This was the best locality close in to the city for bird study, and I spent much time there

Rose

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The Irish Jubilee

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I Wonder Why I Think So Much Of You!

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You\u27re The Girl That I\u27ve Been Longing For

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