February 10, 1903 - Tuesday. 
This morning I heard a loud rattling drum over 
by Stanley’s and saw a female hairy woodpecker 
drumming. This struck as queer because I thought 
that the males did the drumming. It would drum 
and then look around and listen. People going by 
did not frighten it in the least. The drum was 
about 15 strokes given very fast. The bill was 
held about half an inch from the bark for an 
instant before drumming. Perhaps it was a male 
without the red patch. 
February 16, 1903 - Monday . 
Jacques Pfannstiehl told me that in going to 
Portage Saturday the fourteenth he had oeen three 
©ourning doves and a red-tailed hawk. The hawk 
Bdght be a migrant but I think that the doves must 
have stayed all winter. Rob Clark was telling me 
about a hill called Coon Bluff east of Baraboo 
v V; hich was covered with small cacti. This region 
will probably be a good place to explore next 
summer and will probably yield new forms, being 
©ost likely in a different life region than here. 
February 22, 1903 - Sunday* 
This morning about 9 O'clock Art Rudy and I 
went over to the hemlock bluffs. We chased up 
two bluejgys in Voll's and found them again in 
Lyon’s woods. They were hunting for acorns and were 
8 ilent. At the hemlocks we saw a number of chicadees 
They sang and chased each other around through the 
®rees. They came very close and seemed to be 
affected j,oyouqfyby the warm sun. We saw one downy 
Woodpecker. In one place under a rock was a little 
r ound hole in the snow in which a partridge had 
boosted. It had been feeding on birch buds. It 
Was rather a dangerous bed as a weas£l had its den 
a foot up the rocks. 
