Saw a flock of bobwhites on a brushpile 
lining themselves. I came towards them as slowly 
as possible. When 1 was about 30 feet off one, a 
^le dashed off like a racehorse and keeping it- 
self under cover as much as possible made for 
another brush heap. It was followed by another 
a^d as I approached closer the whole flock of 
about 15 flew out and went across the river. 
I got 5 birds nests; a song sparrows, 
redstarts, catbirds, goldfinchs and a cedar wax- 
/in g. Several I could not get. 
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ree 0r generally and went above the tops of 
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he trees for a ways and then soared down. 
ai gh flight struck me as rather peculiar. 
_ Their tracks ran along logs as though they 
lighted to walk them. 
. Tlie only other birds seen all day were 
v/o blue jays who gave a warning call to two deer 
*i. lch la y in a thicket.We stopped dead still but 
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went out on the other side. 
November 30, 1902 - Saturday. 
Last night I came up here to Sullivans and 
Shis morning a little after five Bernie and 1 
started out deer hunting. There was about 3 inches 
snow on the ground and more fell continually. 
, rt ^s seemed to be rather scarce. Twice during 
e f°renoon did parties of chicadees come through 
he woods. They were very restless and seemed ill 
h ease. They were very tame and gathered around 
s questionally as though wondering what I was. 
hey came so close that I almost looked for them to 
ght on me. The beautiful soft tints to the 
e athers could be seen to good advantage and the 
yellow on the flank was nuite marked in both cases. 
^ did not stay long but hurried away in an 
asterly direction. 
Ruffed grouse were very abundant. Their 
a r acks crossed the snow in all directions. In 
ome pi aC es where two came close to each other 
f lles wouid show whore the male had strutted for a 
ew feet with dragging wings, probably for the 
ea ification of a hen. 
They flew up in front of us in flocks of 
