follow her. Then would follow another period of 
rest. Another female nearby did not seem to 
hotice them hut kept on feeding yet she was always 
°lose by and was probably feigning indifference. 
Jf the male flew first the female immediately 
followed him. They showed no fear but a movement 
°n ny part generally started the male gesticulating. 
Their wings purred loudly in flight. 
The blue jays here mocked a red-tailed hawk for 
the first time to ny knowledge this winter. Perhaps 
they were publishing the arrival of the one I saw. 
Or maybe the sight of it started old memories of 
its call. 
Near Seeley Creek I saw a flock of about fifty 
goldfinches on the wings. They must have been 
^grants. 
March 15, 1903 - Friday. 
This morning before breakfast I went down in 
honnell's woods. 
Tree sparrows v/ere quite thick in the brush- 
Piles. They like to feed with the juncoes on 
little slopes. As they flew up in front of me I 
n °ticed a few with red about them in flight and 
inspected song sparrow but they skulked so that I 
°ould not get the glass on one. At last 1 surprised 
* chimp from a brushpile and was satisfied. Later 
l heard them singing. 
March 15, 1903 - Sunday . 
This morning after breakfast it was cold and 
Cloudy with an east wind. Started for the hemlocks. 
n the old pasture (Bonnell's, Maine's etc.) I saw 
* few tree sparrows. They skulked in the grass 
° r a while and then flew up in the trees before I 
®ft they all straggled along over me to the brush- 
P les in the east and calling as they went. 
One or two red-winged blackbirds flew over 
a Hing and I heard several bluebirds which I was 
^able locate. 
^ By the Alder swamp I heard a prairie horned 
looked it up to make sure of its 
entity, it flew off out of sight to the west 
