November 26, 1899 - Sunday. 
\vent down to the ravine. A small flock of 
half a dozen pine siskins lit on a tree. They 
turned their heads this way and that, looked 
at me, flirted their tails as if to signal to 
each other and one by one flew to another tree 
to sun themselves. Then the red-head came. lie 
called once or twice and then settled on a tree. 
He was rather cross for he chased a tree sparrow, 
until it took refuge in a thick thorn appletree. 
He watched until it started out and then took 
after it again. I think it was the same sparrow 
that 1 saw last Sunday. Out of the fence post 
that I visited last Sunday I took half an acorn 
to draw. At the head of the ravine I saw a pair 
of chickadees. They hunted around on the ground 
and in the weeds. One picked up a leaf and 
turned v it over to see what was on the other side. 
Once it picked at a piece of rotten wood, but it 
did not like it and shook its head and wiped its 
bill in disgust. Its short wings and long tail 
give it a bobbing tilting flight. Went over to 
the hole where I found so many acorns- and they were 
all gone, but a few. There were ouite a number of 
shells laying around. Then I went on farther and 
saw a couple of female woodpeckers, one a downy 
and the other a hairy. Then 1 went home. 
December 3, 1899 - Sunday . 
Went down to the ravines tide ufternoon. It was 
cold and was snowing so I put on my overcoat and 
winter cap. My woodpecker evidently did not like 
my looks for he scolded und bobbed at me incessantly 
till a ja.ir of bluejays lit near who evidently 
frightened him for he went around to the other side 
of the branch and kept still till they left. They 
bobbed down to the ground in their usual manner, 
hy closing their wings and opening them, and every 
time the wings closed tipping the body up. -^ach 
secured an acorn on the ground and flew with them 
into a thornapple tree, where each held it under 
