1902.
May 26
(No 3)
  We found fresh tracks & droppings of Deer
in the meadows along the brook. Thayer tells
me that they have become really numerous in
Lancaster. When they first appeared two or three
years ago the fact than one had been seen was
thought worthy of record in the local paper.
Now it hardly excites comment. During the
present spring three have been seen together on
one occasion on Mr. Herbert Parker's place &
five on another. Mr. Harriman says that
while hunting Foxes in the Lancaster woods
last winter he found deer tracks in the
snow almost everywhere.
  On Friday (May 23rd) Mr. John E. Thayer
found the nest of a Red-bellied Nuthatch in
Mr. Parker's woods at South Lancaster. His attention
was attracted by a small, neat hole in a birch
stub about 17 feet above the ground. When he struck
the tree the bird flew out and was shot. There
was a good deal of pitch on the trunk just under
the hole. The nest contained six young birds
about two days old. The parent bird killed was
the male. The female parent visited the hole
& fed the young after her mate had been shot.
Mr. Thayer has seen these Nuthatches before in
the breeding season in Lancaster.
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