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I'.oi.i.KS ()// thr )'i-lh,iv-bclh\(f Wooif flecker . 



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six limes, tiu'ii wh'iiI mil mi llu' linil) ;in(l pirst-iil 1\' l)c'i;";m sli;ik- 

 iiiL;' Iht Iu';i(I \i<)K'nti\, show ciiiii^drojjs lioin lu-r l)i'.ilv in i'\rr\ 

 ilirt'clion until slu- had tlirown up wliat I estimated lobe two lea- 

 spoonfuls of li(|uid. She (lew away eastward Init soon returned 

 and ri'inaint'd until ()._y) when slu' Hew north "'as lor a lon<j," trip." 



1 tlu'n hurrii-d to ()rehard No. 1 and remained there from 10.07 

 until 1 i.is- ^)ii some ol' the trees at this orehard a thick !:;ro\A'lh 

 of small suiker hranehes was eonspieuous just ht'low the drills. 

 I think it w.is eairsc-d 1)\' them. it served as a seit-en foi the 

 SapsiK'kers. l)uriii<4 this houi' three Woodpeckers were at work 

 (lipping and oeeasionailN eatchin^- sonic of the numerous insects 

 of whiih llu' air was full. Seven visits were paid 1)\ IIumniinLj- 

 hirds. ( )ne oi" the I ices in use l)\ llu- Woodpeckers, Ilumnu-is 

 and insects was a red oak. The diills in it were \ery small and 

 round. .\t ii.i^ 1 wi'ut into a la rt;e swamp to the east of Or- 

 chards 1 and 1 in search ol' iVt-sh e\idence. After walkiuiL;' a(|uar- 

 ter ofa mile 1 paused and hooteil like a Barred Owl. A yoiin;^ 

 Sapsucker promptly ai)pi-ared, and a moment later a llmnmin<,^- 

 l)ird, w hich alii;hli-d clost- lo Ihe Woodpi'cki'r. .Si'eiuL;' no Ow 1, the 

 Hummingbird lUw oil" Inwards IJiepoiiil iVoin whith Ihe .Sap- 

 sucker had come. 1 followed and found ( )iihai(l No. }, lon- 

 sistiuL;' maiiiU oi" In-es u^'irdled Iohl;' a^o and now di-ad. The I ri-e 

 in list; was a red ma[)le. Its drills weii' .ihoiit t wenty-fix c feet from 

 the (ground. One bird was dippiiii;- ; two more came soon aftei . 

 .\fler a brief sta\ I wn-nt home to dinner. Returning at 2.^5 I 

 staved until /I.15. A Downs Woodpeckt-r passed without going 

 to the drills. At _^.:^5 1 killed I wo young Woodpeckers with a 

 sin<de chargi- ofdiisl shot. /\ few moments latt'r a llummingbird 

 aliohted in oiu' ol' the dead maplis. Al |.io 1 was (hawn away 

 by the hooting of .1 liaired ( )wl and did not ii'tni n lo Orchard 

 No. ^ until Aug. 7 wluMi 1 found only one Sapsucker at work, a 

 young 01U-, which 1 shot. I do not think that I found the prin- 

 cipal trees in Ibis orchard. 



1 ended my ob.servations of July 2S by a visit of twenty-live 

 minutes at 'Orchard No. .|' which I had first seen three years 

 before. It consisted of a large iimnbei of dead and a few living 

 trees wliich stood on a delta formed by the Chocoriia Rivi-r at its 

 point of union ^vith Chocorua Lake. The ])art of the orchard 

 in usi- was a birch from whose root rose four major Miinks cpiickly 

 subdividing into fifteen minor stems each rising to a height of 



