144 FROM BLOMIDON TO SMOKY. 



" Male and young one dipping. Hummer comes 

 in and dips several times between tJiem 2l\\(\. they 

 offer no objection." 



In spite of the fact that one young bird had 

 been shot from the family at Orchard No. 1, the 

 tree was without woodpeckers only about one 

 hour out of the nine that I watched it on July 27. 



On the 28th, I arrived at Orchard No. 1 at 7.28 

 A. M. and watched it for two hours. On my ar- 

 rival I filled one cup with brandy, sugar and 

 syrup, and another, a new one, with pure brandy, 

 and a drop or two of the mixture on top. A 

 hummiug-bird's arrival at 7.30 brought the male 

 sapsucker from a neighboring tree. The hum- 

 mer was driven away. The woodpecker dipped 

 several times and then tried the pure brandy. 

 He shook his beak and hitched away from the 

 cup. Then he went out on the limb used as a 

 regidar point of departure and flew north, as 

 my notes say, " pointing and flying as though for 

 a long trip." At 8.13, a male hummer drank 

 forty seconds from the cup containing the brandy 

 and syrup mixture. At 8.16, a female hummer 

 drank twenty seconds at the same cup. Both ig- 

 nored the drills. At 8.42, a female hummer while 

 drinking was attacked again and again by the 

 wasps and bees surrounding the tree, and com- 

 pelled to defend herself. At 9.05, the female 

 woodpecker arrived, dipped in a few holes and 



