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February 12, 1900 Monday. 
Went down to K. Smith’s before breakfast, 
l'he sky was cloudy and it was dark. I saw a 
large bird that I thought was a robin but it 
was a bluejay. Saw a junco, his mate was over 
by Spahrs, the pair have been around all 
winter. They never come to the food I throw 
out. Went down to a sweet acorn tree,on 
the bark I could see traces of where a wood¬ 
pecker’s claws had chipped the bark. Around 
on the ground were half shells some with the 
meat in yet that had been eaten by woodpeckers 
or bluejays. A small flock of redpolls flew 
over. One was singing a sputtering song like 
s p-z-z- 2 -zt and giving the call note after it 
had done. 'TheftI went home. 
February 13,1900 - Tuesday . 
A few days” ago I crowded some sun flower 
seeds in the bark of the little elm. This 
morning when I looked they were all gone. I 
found a chunk of Norway spruce bark and cut 
off a piece about 8 by 4 inches. Then I tocka 
knife and punched a number of holes in it about 
3/4 of an inch apart,in each one I put a sun 
flower seed and hung it out on the little elm 
together with two bunches of spiders eggs. A 
white-breasted nuthatch was there, he sat on a 
branch just above me and sang ery ery ery ery 
and then flew off. I put out some feed for 
the English sparrows. About 20 came. Some 
pine siskins were up in the maple but they did 
not come down. For the last two days it has been 
warm but last night the wind went into the north¬ 
west and it turned very cold. 
Tonight when I came home from school the piece 
of bark was empty and the spiders eggs were gone. 
I do not know what bird took them. I had to take 
a new piece of bark as this one was cracked. 
