1891
March 25
No 6
of a white pine looked new and symmetrical
from the ground but on climbing above it
B. reported it heaped up with dry leaves.
  In these woods we saw a Downy Woodpecker,
a garter snake, and several butterflies, including
two Vanessa antiopa and one Grapta comma. There was another species, also,
nearly as large with narrower wings and of a
lighter brown color (Grapta comma). In the birches along the
ditch we had previously seen a much smaller
kind with moth-like wings but rich reddish-
brown coloring beneath (a true moth Brephos infans). Perhaps a dozen of the
three kinds were seen during the day.
  On the slope of this hill near where the Creeper
sang a large, rather gaunt looking Woodchuck
suddenly appeared and after flattening his
body in a hollow scurried off thirty yards or
more to the entrance of his hole where he
sat perfectly still, [delete]but[/delete] neither erect nor in
the [delete]usually[/delete] usual formless attitude, but nearly
as a Rabbit or Squirrel would have sat, the
back strongly arched, the head [delete]erect[/delete] raised,
the anatomy of the hip strongly marked.
  In a deep hollow on the top of the ridge
where a group of old white pines interlaced
their sombre foliage and protected several
snow banks from the wasting March sun
we started a large Owl which I took to be 
a Barred Owl although it looked unusually 
light-colored or yellowish perhaps because
the sunlight struck on and through its great
wings. It flew from a pine nearly over my