Over towards Knoop’s I thought I heard a 
pine grosbeak and then an evening grosbeak. When 
I got closer, however, it turned out to be only 
the English sparrows. 
At the hemlocks two pine grosbeaks flew 
over and I missed both of them. One would have 
alighted if I had not shot on the wing. 
Farther up the hill I shot a chicadee and 
a white-breasted nuthatch. 
Saw some ruffed grouse tracks and followed 
them up until I flushed the bird. I shot but 
did not get it. As I came up onto the level 
I saw one crouched with head held up at the 
base of a hemlock. It flew and I shot it. 
Later I saw three others, one of whom, the 
mother I think flew up with an excited seek 
seek repeated four or five times. 
December 20, 1903 - Sunday . 
This morning Art Eudy and I went down 
the railroad track to Slentz Creek. I shot a 
white-breasted nuthatch with the top of the 
head the same color as the batk. This is the 
first one I ever saw that way to notice it. It 
was one of a flock of five or six that were on a 
side hill. 
I also shot a red-bellied woodpecker. It 
was only wounded slightly and led us a merry 
chase before it was captured. 
A flock of a dozen pine grosbeaks came 
stringing through the trees lighting for an 
instant to look at us and then going. They 
straggled along quite a ways apart and finally 
bunched on the top of the hill and in a few 
minutes were gone. 
That red-bellied woodpecker had all the 
characteristics of his species. He lit in a 
tree and went up it until he reached a dead 
stub where he perched. 
