20 . 
let me get quite close. 
The pine siskins are quite common here nov;. 
I hear them everywhere flying around and sitting. 
This afternoon 1 heard a tree sparrow give a 
liquid note like keupe-keupe . I saw a chickadee 
in some weeds. It would get a small cocoon or 
seed and then pound on a stick. It ate ragweed 
seed. 
November 5, 1899 - Sunday . 
The siskin’s flight is hounding. It does not 
curve so much as the goldfinch. They resemble 
these birds very much. They are a little plumper. 
The siskin’s are very restless and are flying 
around chirping all the time. 
November 10, 1899 - Friday . 
Vent down by the ditch and saw a flock of juncos, 
a flock of goldfinches and a flock of sparrows. 
There was an old cat trying to catch them. The 
juncos chased the others away when they came too 
near. 
November 11, 18S9 - Saturday . 
This morning I kissed to' a junco on a fence 
and he answered me a number of times. Went out 
huntirg this forenoon and saw a flock of bob- 
whites. They were quite tame. Their wings did 
not make so loud a noise as a patridges. I came 
to the place where I saw the grosbeaks last yrear. 
It was full of old stubs. Y/oodpeckers, chickadees 
and nuthatchs were thick. The woodpeckers were 
all male, hairy and downy. Saw a brown creeper. 
It braced with its tail, it v/ent up a tree with a 
nocking motion, very peculiar. It never stopped 
an instant, but when it got to the branches of one 
tree it would go to another. Saw and heard one 
woodpecker that puzzles me. I have heard it often. 
It has a loud nasal note like kaow, kaow, k aow. 
Ihed-bellied woodpecker .J 
