There are a few English sparrows around. 
■“■key stay in "barn and are hard to approach as 
^hey have been shot at. When scared up they 
generally fly over to the next farm. 
DECEMBER. 
December 7, 1 902 - Sunday. 
This morning it was dull and cloudy with a 
rather brisk west wind. The ground was covered 
W-th nearly a foot of snow and in the v.oods it was 
«ieedeep. I went down through the swimming hole 
Woods - Saw whore the quails had been feeding in a 
cornfield. The tracks led into the woods. The 
hickets of hazel and prickly ash were bent down 
^hd formed little covered bowers under which the 
'racks were veiy thick. In one place I saw the 
■Large snowshoe tracks of a bluejay where it had 
topped along the snow for a few feet. I could not 
see what it had found to eat but something must 
have called it down. 
Farther down across from the plum orchard 
7 n the Hackberry woods I heard a loud continuous 
tapping but could not locate it at first, but 
af ter a good deal of watching saw a female hairy 
Woodpecker out on a limb in plain sight. 1 was 
eginning to think 1 had lost my eyesight. It kept 
P a call all the time but had a very weak voice. 
There were also two pairs of white-breasted 
Uthatches here. They also were hard to locate and 
> Vere not so noisy as is usual. They kept up a 
iow conversational note all the time however. 
Jhere was only about 2/3 of the tree trunks that 
could work at as the rest was covered with 
®ttov/. I watched one getting larva of some sort 
rom the bark of a hackberry and then tried to 
^ l nd one myself but of course failed. They must 
ver y good sight. I think that they prospect 
their bills and thus help find them as they 
J°Uld thrust through the bark into the home of 
l 'he grub. 
