October 51. 1899 - Tuesday . 
This nwmingiripa^^ from f e 
church sheds and lit on a post, it grasped 
knot and braced with its tail looking like a 
brown creeper. Then it joined it- 8 * on ^““Jed 
eating ragweed seeds, apparently well satisfied 
with itself. They greeted it with a shrill 
chirp. They were a lot on the ground. They 
were eating scraps also. 
November 2, 1899 - Thursday . 
Heard the nine siskins as" they flew over 
this morning/ I have not seen them for some 
time. The sparrows are roosting m the x.o \ y 
spruces and have been ever since the 3e & ™ s 
dropped off. Some have holes or places under 
porches where they can roost. In the spruces 
they roost rather close to the ground. They 
take a place where a twig starts out. 
Novem ber 5, 1899 - Friday . 
Saw some pine siskins in Mr. Fisk s app e 
tree. One gave a note like pit£ exactly the 
same as a goldfinch. 
No vember 4, 1899 - Saturday . 
This mowing 1 hoard'some /uncos over by 
old lady J?ettey%. I went over there. My 
attention was attracted by a noise. I looked 
up in a spruce and saw a bird. I thought it 
was a sparrow eating the pine cones. cam 
home and got my glass and on looking f otmd 
that it was a siskin, lie would run Ms Dili in 
the crevices of the cone and after working 
awhile pull out the soft seeds and eat it _with 
relish. V/hen going from one cone to another 
would drop down by the trunk and then flutter- 
out on the branch. It would hang head dqwn for 
sometime. I heard a tapping noise in a brush 
pile out by the barn today and in looking saw 
that it was a chickadee. He had got a sun 
flower seed and was pounding the shell off. lie 
