[Cambridge, Massachusetts]
1913
March 
24 
(No 2)
[March 24, 1913]

extract anything from any of them. After demolishing
one the bird would at once attack another, working
with what seemed almost feverish haste and energy.
All three birds moved about from place to place over
the ground with surprising ease and quickness for such
habitually arboreal creatures advancing by a succession
of vigorous hops stiff & woodeny yet by no means
clumsy or awkward. When approached they would
stand very still for a moment and then fly to the
nearest tree, returning to the ground again as soon as 
the coast was clear. There were a dozen or more
Bronzed Grackles & a Flicker feeding close about them
much of the time but not, so far as I could see,
paying any attention to the stubs which so attracted 
them.  The Flicker[']s hopping runs were much more
smoothly and gracefully frequent than those of the three
Dryobates. I have never known the latter birds [to] behave
in a similar manner before.