we took short cuts through the fields and woods 
for miles. The warm weather has started the 
woodpeckers and I could hear the drum of downy 
and the rattle and loud love notes of the hairy. 
In going through a wood road three of four crows 
flew up singly and lit in the trees to flirt 
flirt their tails and peer at us to see whether 
or not we were dangerous. 
In the same place some white-breasted nut¬ 
hatches were singing. At Vorteins were a few 
English sparrows. I sat in the sun out back of 
Ehody’s barn and watched the birds. A bluejay 
screamed in the distance and in answer to ny 
whistle came nearer until I could see it. Then 
a hairy woodpecker attracted ny attention and I 
watched until it passed out of sight. It flew 
from one tree to another and I thought it was 
going to drum but it did not. 
In going up a hill in a field a flock of 
about 100 pine siskins flew up ahead from the 
weeds and lit in the trees of a brushy pasture. 
They had a great deal to say and very restless 
out did not sing. 
February 8, 1903 - Sunday. 
This morning the chicadees were very noisy, 
f tried to get them to eat out of my hand but 
they were not quite brave enough. One would cone 
down to the suet within a foot of my head but 
they never dared to light on my hand. One made 
continual swoops at it barely missing it each 
time. They went on the ground at my feet, 
ne had lost its tail in some way. After a little 
they wandered away but a whistled Phoe-be always 
brought them back. ' 
Other visitors were a white-breasted nuthatch, 
hairy woodpecker and a bluejay. A seed was held 
*h one foot to be cracked. They scolded oe a good 
deal. 
