Concord, Mass.
1911.
March 28
(No. 2)
[March 28, 1911]

White breasted Nuthatch storing suet

  Nothing has been seen of the [female] Nuthatch at
the Farm since the 20th until this morning when
she appeared at the suet in company with her mate
remaining there with him for fifteen or twenty
minutes. As on former occasions this spring he would
not allow her to actually perch on the suet threatening
her whenever she approached it nearer than two or three
feet yet he gave her most of the pieces he dug out of
the lump. She disposed of all that she received from
him by placing it in holes or crevices in the back of
the locust tree in front of the house in which the suet
lump is now hanging. He cached a number of them 
himself in the same way. Some were put by both
birds in crevices not over three or four feet above or below
the lump itself. Once I saw the male thrust a piece into
a crevice & then almost immediately remove and eat it.