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come easy, and that is why they are worth 

 trying to discover. 



" Did you ever stop to think where all the 

 woodpeckers are keeping themselves in the 

 winter? They don't migrate, that is, not 

 many of them. The golden woodpecker, or 

 flicker, does, but we still have the hairy, the 

 downy, the red-crest, and the yellow-bellied 

 sap-sucker. You will see them all on warm 

 days. 



" In the autumn these woodpeckers pick 

 out winter quarters in the trees, and that is 

 why you so often hear pounding in the fall. 

 They make the winter nest larger and more 

 commodious than the spring one but Mr. and 

 Mrs. Woodpecker each have a nest, usually 

 in different trees. In fact, I can't see that 

 the pairing woodpeckers have very much to 

 do with one another, once their young are 

 reared. 



" The yellow-bellied sap-sucker enjoys the 

 winter, especially the latter part of it, more 

 than all the other woodpeckers put together, 

 for it is his special time of harvest. 



