February 14, 1900 - Wedne sday. 
This noori when i carte home from school T went 
out to look at the suet. As I stepped out the 
door I saw the black kitten up in the maple. He 
was after a male downy woodpecker. I called him 
down. The sunflower seeds were nearly all there 
hut one piece of suet was gone. At night the 
sunflower seeds are all there yet. 
February 15, 1900 - Thursday. 
The evening’ grosbeaks are here again. A flock 
of about 75 or 100 were feeding in Lawton’s 
yard. Walter Draper came over to school after 
me but 1 was not there being half an hour late. 
They came yesterday. This noon I noticed that 
the bark was empty. I have not seen any birds at 
it yet. 
Attended a Sunday School Convention this after¬ 
noon for about an hour. I saw two delegates near 
me with birds in their hats. One was a sparrow 
and I think that the other was a grosbeak of some 
kind. After this 1 went up to Lawton’s to see if 
the evening grosbeaks were there. They were not. 
They had been in a box elder tree eating the 
dried seeds. I could see traces of them on the 
ground. Urs. Lawton says that they kept up quite 
a loud chattering. There were several bright 
Bales. Came home and fastened a tin box to a 
stick and tied to the little elm for the wood¬ 
peckers. I filled it with fine suet, cracked wheat 
whole wheat and sunflower seeds. 
February 16, 1900 - Friday . 
The juncolTand Chickadees flights are both the 
same. Each has a long tail and short round wings, 
which gives them a tippy flight. The English 
sparrow, the hairy and downy woodpeckers and the 
white-breasted nuthatch fly in long curves. The 
English sparrow takes longer curves than the other. 
