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sapsucker. At 11.15, I fired while a hummer 

 and young sapsucker were both dipping, and 

 killed the woodpecker. At 11.47, I tried again 

 and killed a sapsucker and male hummer with 

 the same charge. At 12.12, a female hummer 

 came and dipped for forty seconds. At 12.27, 

 I shot another young sapsucker, and at 12.34 

 a fourth. As I left the orchard, a female hum- 

 mer was dipping. 



On August 10, I spent from 5.30 p. M. until 

 6.30 at Orchard No. 4. A young sapsucker and 

 hummer were in the drilled tree during the en- 

 tire hour. Although I climbed into the tree to 

 put maple syrup in the cup, the woodpecker did 

 not leave the branches. Neither bird took any 

 syrup. 



On August 13, I reached Orchard No. 2 at 

 6.40 A. M. At 7.09, a hummer buzzed in my 

 face so near that I was startled and waved her 

 off. At 7.15, a hummer was dipping in a canoe 

 birch near by. At 7.17, I fired at her but 

 missed. She dipped again at 7.29. At 7.32, I 

 fired again and failed. At 7.37, she was dipping 

 again and then perched near by. She dipped 

 again at 7.45 and 7.49, and I tried a third shot 

 which was successful. At 7.58, a female hum- 

 mer was dipping in the same spot. At 8.07, I 

 left without having seen a woodpecker but with 

 the certainty that more than a single pair of 

 hummers used Orchard No. 2. 



