1900 
April 21 ******* * * * 
♦ 
kadees 
excavat in^ 
hole 
Walking to the east end of the hill just after break¬ 
fast, I came upon a pair of Chickadees busily engaged in 
excavating a hole in a birch stump. Like the birds seen 
yesterday they entered the hole alternately, filled their 
bills with fragments of the rotten wood and carried their 
loads thirty or forty feet away before dropping them. Each 
bird had a favorite perch on which it usually alighted to 
drop its load but occasionally each would fly to some tree 
other than the one it usually visited. They worked very 
rapidly and rhythmically and were evidently making rapid 
progress. They paid not the slightest attention to Purdie 
and me, although we stood for some time talking, within 
fifteen yards of the nest. 
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A tame 
Wild 
Rabbit 
As twilight was falling, Purdie discovered a Rabbit 
within ten feet of the smaller cabin and. called me out to 
see it. It was nibbling at a piece of toasted bread and 
showed little or no fear of us although it started off a 
few feet when I tried to pass it within a distance or two or 
three yards. It looked and acted like the remarkably tame 
Rabbit which frequented the path east of the cabin last spring. 
