He saw me and flew away. His flight was direct 
and sv/ift. Then I went home. 
October 16, 1899 - Monday . 
Saw a flock of cedar waxwings this morning. 
They had two notes, one was a faint indrawn se- e 
and the other a louder harsher zeep . 
When the sparrows are feeding or roosting 
or nesting in flocks or anything they may be 
doing, an old male is always more watchfulothan 
the others, and if danger threatens he warns the 
others by a number of harsh notes like chr-r-r-r-r 
che\jt] chew cheW. When a male is courting a fe¬ 
male "or when he gets in the way of the others 
they fight him, and all go flying swiftly off, 
doubling back and forth a few feet from the 
ground, and at last lighting sot®where and having 
it out. I once caught one when they flew into a 
woodpile and a friend of mine caught two as they 
rolled off a roof Jt this time great flocks of 
them are feeding in different places, all coming 
back to roost. The country is full of them and 
most of them come to the towns in the winter. 
October 17, 1899 - Tuesday . 
Today as I was inclass at school a pair of 
sparrows lit on a ladder right close to the 
window and looked in, they then flew up on the 
roof, I saw one catching - flies like a pewee 
the other day. It would fly out and get one and 
then go back to the sane place. I think that 
they are beginning to eat insects now for a relish. 
They are very fond of pigeon grass. The stomach 
of one that I opened was crammed full of the 
seeds with a few insects that they had probably 
found on the ground. 
Oc tober 19, 1699 Thursday . 
I got a Baltimore oriole’s nest. I had found 
it when it had young in it in June, and did not 
climb to it. It was 4-l/2 inches long from the 
