1909 
April 5 
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Fox Sparrows The Fox Sparrows feeding on the seed bed under our 
run to cover 
whaj& alarmed dining-room windows invariably run into the neighboring 
by crBrtant . 
sights cluster of lilacs (a distance of only a few yards; when dis- 
or sounds 
turbed by distant sights or sounds, all scurrying off at 
once as quickly as a band of startled rats. But if we open 
the back door suddenly, they take wing . The Juncos always 
fly when alarmed^i not into the depths of this thicket but up 
into the branches of the trees. 
April 6 
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Sapsucker 
Song Sparrow 
increase 
One extends 
and quivers 
its vifings 
while 
s inging 
The Sapsucker was in the little grove behind our 
barn where I see one nearly every year at this season (usually 
a little later). It was clinging to the trunk of a gray 
birch in a listless attitude, looking indeed as if asleep. 
There was a male Downy within two yards of it on another tree. 
.... Song Sparrows were fairly numerous. I 
heard about a dozen on the way to Ball's Hill. One singing 
to its mate (and chasing her by turns) regularly extended 
and quivered its left v/ing and then its right, during nearly 
every utterance of its song. I do not remember this action, 
although I may have seen it before. 
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Wo^l Fr ogs 
Th^r dark 
at this 
season 
Wood Frogs croaking everywhere all day long and tO' 
river 
night. I heard and saw them in the flooded/meadows, even. 
On examining a number in sunlight, at short range, through 
my glass, I was surprised to find that their coloring was 
wholly unlike that in summer and autumn. It looked almost 
