In the farther woods I saw 4 or 5 young red¬ 
headed woodpeckers that had just left the nest. 
The head was slate grey. When hogging for food 
■they give a hissing note like c c c c . They 
also have the tree-toad like note. One preened 
its feathers and bohbed like a flicker. Between 
feeding times it got insects from the bark. They 
can fly quite well. The old ones got the food 
either in .the air or on the ground. The climbs 
trees by jumps catching their claws in the bark 
and then falling back on the tail. When the old 
bnes lit with thier backs to me they resembled 
bobbers. They seemed to jerk the tree toad like 
notes out. Then I started back. 
Pound a king birds egg in a chipping sparrow 
nest in a bush near their tree. It was deserted. 
The egg was addled. It was probably ready to lay 
before the nest was completed or after incubation 
had commenced. Then I went home. 
July 11, 1899 - Tuesday. 
This afternoon I went down to the ditch. Heard 
a Maryland yellow-throat give a song like prett y 
gute_ prettv cute varied to cute pretty cute pretty 
repeated 5 or 6 times. 
After supper I laid in the shade of the corn 
over by Mrs. Russel's and watched chimney swifts. 
The had young in the church chimney by their 
actions. When one wanted to go down it it would 
fly about 6 feet about it and 4 feet to one side 
and go towards it on a slant tipping up with each 
side alternately to stop its speed. When it got 
above the opening it would hold its wings straight 
U P* Sometimes 10 or 12 went down and suddenly 
counted high up, came to the level of trees in 
bunches of one or two. 
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July 13, 1895 - Thursday. 
This morning early I was over in Mr. Fisk's 
®bop sawing some boards. A bird lit in the oat- 
i e ld back of it in plain view of the window. It 
1116 closer and I saw that it was a young Baltimore 
