Cambridge, Mass.
1900.
April 1-12
Garden Birds
  Colaptes auratus. - A Flicker has visited and "shouted"
in or very near the garden almost daily and on
the 10th I saw two birds together in the lindens.
We have not yet seen them visit the box where
the pair mated last year and from their actions
I fear they will not take possession of it this
season.
  Seiurus carolinensis. - A pair of Gray Squirrels are
evidently breeding in a hole in the tall apple tree
that shades the north gate of the garden and I
have little doubt that there is another nest in 
the big linden at the east end of the house.
These Squirrels have been drinking maple sap
daily since the middle of March. They have
scarred the under sides of most of the lower
branches of the large sugar maple that over arches
the driveway and these branches, as well as the
trunk, are wet with flowing sap while the
Squirrels lap greedily. They have also dug up & eaten
all the crocus bulbs that were planted around
the driveway circle. For several years past they
have torn to pieces (and perhaps eaten) all the
flowers of the yellow crocus in this bed never
touching those of other colors although the different
colors were everywhere intermingled but this is
the first time they have molested any of
the bulbs. They have not as yet dug up any
of the squills or snow drop which were planted
among the crocus.