1902
April 5
  Cloudy most of the day with strong & piercingly
chilly N.E. wind.
  Walked to the farm in the early morning 
and back after sunset. Spending most of the
day planting.
  A female Hairy Woodpecker appeared in the large
elm at the eastern end of the farm house at about
9 A.M. and remained there for nearly half-an-hour
hammering away at some decayed branches evidently
searching for grubs. She was much tamer than birds of
this species usually are here permitting us to stand
directly beneath her without showing much alarm
although she did, at first, hide behind the branch
for a half minute or so before venturing to resume
her work. I heard her utter the tchick call repeatedly
and once she made a sound which I do not 
remember to have noted before - a rapidly enunciated
kik-kik-kik-kik-kik-kik which was not unlike
the "shout" of the Flicker but shriller and more
slowly given. This cry may have been a variation of
the Kingfisher-like rattle of the Hairy but it did
not seem at all like it.
  The Phoebee and one or two Fox Sparrows were
singing near the cabin early this morning but
the woods were silent as the grave during most
of the day. I did, however, hear a Grass Finch
singing fitfully in the orchard in the forenoon.
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