Sitta canadensis . 
1395, 
September 19 
Lake Umbagog 
Errol Hill Pond 
Catchlng flies and storing seeds. 
The Red-bellied. Nuthatches were catching flying insects 
(which they did as adroitly as Flycatchers) and extracting seeds 
from the spruce cones which they took to stubs or rough-barked 
trees and stored away in small crevices for future use. I have 
seen them at the latter employment many times during the present 
month. 
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1396, Lake Umbagog. 
May 25. Rapid Ri ver. 
We found only one occupied nest, that of a Nuthatch. It 
was in a small stub standing several yards outside the woods in 
water two or three feet deep. There was a little fresh pitch just 
below the hole from which some of the nesting material protruded. 
The female was at the hole at work either on th^ material or at 
the pitch when we first saw the nest, but she flew to another stub 
soon afterwards and joined her mate there. 
Lake Umbagog. 
Nest. 
June 7. 
Later Watrous went to Rapid River to get the Nuthatch's 
nest which we found May 25. To his great surprise it proved to 
contain young 4 or 5 days old. It must have had nearly fresh eggs 
when we first found it. 
