1908
March 25
Concord, Mass.
  A Hairy Woodpecker was calling loudly early
this morning in an elm in the door yard at the
farm. Gilbert saw what, no doubt, was the same
bird yesterday forenoon. It was in the elm at
first. Half an hour later Gilbert found it in
our wood shed or rather he saw it fly from
somewhere well back in the shed when he stepped
down into it from the kitchen door. The front
of this shed has two large arched openings. At
the back we have recently piled up a quantity
of sawed and split gray birch wood which the
Woodpecker probably visited in search of borers.
Hairy Woodpeckers come at all seasons into the 
old elms that stand close about our house
but this is the first occasion when I have known
one of them to enter a building of any kind.
Hairy Woodpecker in our Wood shed