below it to eat and tookthis means of getting it. 
If its speed seemed great a distance of a quarter 
°f a mile it must have "been enormous nearby as it 
started to drop a bluejay whistled the single 
slarm note. Pink putter and every bird within 
sight instantly froze. 
Here by the bridge I heard my first bluebird. 
Altogether I saw and heard about a dozen. They 
Were all on the wing and gave both fall note and • 
song. 
Occasionally during the forenoon flocks of 
ev ening grosbeaks passed over high up going due 
^Orth. They were very noisy but were hard to 
locate. 
Saw a single rusty blackbird flying over so 
Igh that I could just barely see it. It is hard 
o find birds that are at any height in the air as 
be eye is not easily focussed for them. 
Crows were thick. They sat around in the 
r ees calling or flew across the sky singly or in 
P a irs. One flew up towards my from Dahlke's marsh 
Ht about ten rods off. It lifted its wings 
®h8piciously and finally flew off. When they called 
11 the wing they sailed while giving some notes, 
be sailed with set wings from Weinke's hill to 
9 hemlocks in a long slant. The wings were held 
alf open and the tips were held slightly higher than 
be back. Six or eight on the hill greeted every 
s bot of a man hunting with loud caws. 
Saw several flocks of pine siskins. They 
®re very restless and did not light for long in one 
Place, 
. Belov/ the Cabin a hairy v/oodpecker was trying 
0 win a mate. They would sit close together. She 
^PParently asleep after a while she would look at 
^ to and he would hitch up and down calling ke ku 
°ddly and bowing jerkily and she would respond. 
® always kept his raised and moved it from side to 
* bis moustaches probably and occasionally tapped 
the tree at the end of each bow. He would come 
jJ Ser an b then she would fly to another tree call- 
^ l e kil le kil le or ke ke ke ke and he would 
