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finally flew away it dodged back and forth 
after insects. On a dead tree near the ravine I 
.saw a young red-headed woodpecker. It would 
give a .note like ker-r-r-ruclc dodging back at the 
end of it. A little - while after I saw this same 
woodpecker get an acorn off from a tree and fly 
off with it. He seemed to be storing them for 
v/inter. Twice he took them to a stub and once 
he went to a stump. Once the oak limb he lighted 
on nearly broke with him and he hung back down. 
Y.hen he flew away that time a little junco 
sparrow chased him. I went to the stump and found 
one of the acorns. Then I heard a robin sing a 
litirle and saw several. The juncos have 
gathered into flocks and I.hear them utter a 
whistled too- too . I followed it and got 
sight of tTherrn The red-head always seemed to 
go to the same tree. He seemed to bo rather 
suspicious of me. He could go down a tree back¬ 
wards easily lifting his tail, hopping down and 
falling back on it. He kept up his tree toad 
like note all the while. The stub he liked best 
was very tall and he would put a nut there and 
hammerod it with his shiny white bill very hard. 
All the nuts I examined were perfectly sound. 
Once he brought one to the stub and dropped it, 
and he was after it like a flash, but did not 
get it. When he got them out of the tree he would 
pick them out of the caps.easily. I found some 
nubbins of corn in a fie Id;while hunting for a 
place to put them I found a hole with 16 acorns 
in it that he had put there. On each one the 
marks of his bill made by hammering them in couid 
be seen. He had also hid them by putting bark 
in with them. It was quite deep and around the 
edge of it were small feathers from his head and 
neck taken off when he was pounding. I watched 
him when he flew into a little ditch and when I 
looked he was drinking water like a chicken. Hear¬ 
ing the sktk of a hairy woodpecker I followed it up 
nnd saw hinPeating some sweet corn. He had 
commenced at the top of the eor and was slowly 
