1909 
April 7 
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;ker The Sapsucker was in nearly the same place behind our 
drinking barn again to-day. I saw him drinking sap which dripped 
birch sap from the trunk of a gray birch which had been completely 
girdled by rows of holes about six feet above the ground, 
no doubt by his sharp-pointed bill, for I passed the tree 
repeatedly yesterday without noticing the injury. 
Gray 
Young/'Squi'rrels 
in nest 
Early this forenoon, I sent one of Richardson’s men 
up into the big white pine near the path through Pulpit Rock 
woods to throw down a Gray Squirrel’s nest on the under side 
of which we could see clusters of gypsy moth eggs. He could 
not get to it for it was near the extremity of a long branch, 
but he pulled it off with a pole. In falling, it broke into 
fragments. When these reached the ground, we were surprised 
to find among them four young Gray Squirrels. They were of 
about the size of large Field Mice. Their eyes were tightly 
closed, their heads, bodies and tails absolutely without 
trace of hair or fur and of a warm flesh color. One showed 
a slightly bleeding wound, the others seemed unhurt. When I 
picked them up, they squealed shrilly like rats, but made 
no attempt to bite. I left two at the base of the nest tree 
and these were gone before noon. The other two, placed at 
the foot of a neighboring pine in which I had seen the mother 
Squirrel, were there at 4. P. M. The mother showed herself 
only this once, and made no sound. 
