THE RED-HEADED WOODPECKER 105 



times joined by the female. Does he drum at all 

 when his mate is with him? (Yes, and she seems to 

 think him a fine musician.) Is this the only sound 

 you hear a red-headed woodpecker make? (He 

 makes a shrill, lively sound, in which there is no 

 music.) See if you can make it. You may tell all 

 you know about the music of a red-headed wood- 

 pecker. (Review.) 



Where do red-headed woodpeckers sleep at the 

 end of their long, busy day? [Leave the children 

 to find this out for themselves if they can. Let 

 them watch near a nest if there be one near their 

 home.] (They sometimes, early in the season, sleep 

 in holes in trees, but Leander Keyser says that 

 they usually sleep on an upright or oblique perch, 

 clinging with their stout claws, with their heads 

 pillowed in the feathers on their backs.) 



After the red-headed woodpecker has called his 

 mate they two go to work building a nest. Where ? 

 (In the trunk of a dead tree that is not too soft or in 

 a branch, a fence post, or a telegraph pole. When 

 made in a branch it is usually on the under side.) 

 Why? How do they make it? (They cut out a round, 

 smooth, straight hole right in front of them, with their 

 bills. They make it large enough around so that the 



