Cambridge, Mass.
1900
April 1-12 
  Corvus americanus - Crows have visited us during and
at all hours alighting frequently in the lindens and
apple tree and cawing loudly. They are so tame as
to often permit us to walk directly under them.
  On the 4th Walter Dean saw one start from an apple
tree with a twig a foot long in its bill and fly off
with it towards the west. The twig was certainly broken
from the tree for the bird had nothing in its bill 
when it alighted. The next day at about 2 P.M.
Walter and I saw a crow alight in the top of the
tall apple tree at the north gate of the garden. Presently 
it began trying to break off twigs from a dead branch
seizing them in its bill and wrenching & twisting with
all its strength, sometimes flapping its wings to gain
additional leverage. Some of the harder twigs resisted
its outermost efforts but it finally seized a
bill-full (at least four or five) of rather small
ones and flew off with them in the direction
of Elmwood.
Garden Birds Crows
  Dryobates pubescens. - The pair of Downy Woodpeckers
have been unremitting in their visits to the fruit which
hangs in the crab apple tree by the Museum window.
They have usually appeared singly but twice an hour down
the female came when the male was on the suet. On both
occasions he erected his crest, half opened his wings
and showed other unmistake able  signs of displeasure
at his partner's approach. On the first occasion the female contented
herself with perching on a twig a foot or two away but on
the second she alighted on the opposite side of the suet
from the male & fed for a moment until he drew her away.
Downy woodpecker
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