while I am pumping water but never goes down to 
eat until I am through. While waiting it sits 
up in the tree and calls. It has a good place 
for the pines are thick and will shield it from 
winds and aB long as it can get food it will not 
freeze. 
January 13, 1903 - Tuesday . 
This morning in Baraboo as I was coming from 
reakfast I heard a bluejay screaming in Langdon's 
yard. I thought that perhaps it might have found 
en owl but have been fooled so many times this 
winter that I was undecided whether to go or not. 
inally I went over and saw three or four jays in 
wie top of a little spruce, I could find no owl 
ut as I turned to go away about a dozen jays 
came out one after another. I think that they 
were roosting there for they immediately became 
They nust be late risers for it was eight 
clock but then it was cold. I have noticed in 
6 wo od.s that no birds are out early in the 
doming. Heard the spring note to whery ery-er 
t his morning of Sitta carolinensis^ 
It will soon be spring. T am getting the 
pring fever already and school seems like prison, 
is song has made it worse than ever. 
FEBRUARY. 
i I 
February 1, 1903 - Sunday. 
f T ^ i8 rooming it was warm and sunny. I put out 
resh sunflower seeds and suet for the chicadees. 
oy came thicker than ever. There were about 
b aif a dozen of them. Went down in the field* as 
b e akfast was not ready. The ground was almost 
are of snow and the south hills loomed up with 
b ^^iug clearness. Hot many birds wore out 
I almost looked for a msadowlark or bluebird. 
saw my first migrants however for a few prairie 
^rned larks flew over calling sweetly. An early 
'art for my migration list. ” 
c ount^ 6r k re akfa8t Father and I drove out in the 
PaBt Jack Dickies to Hortons and Rhody’s 
home by the mines. The roads very bad and 
