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seeds they could find they flew off towards 
the upper part of town. Their flight was 
slightly hounding. They were about the size 
of Bobins. 
1 stuck iny head out of the window and 
told Clarence Cook and Eurr Dickie,who were 
skating on a pond, about it. 
Burr asked me what the names of some 
large yellow birds with black on their heads 
were. I told him that they were Evening Gros¬ 
beaks . 
February 21, 1S00 - Wednesday 
This morning before breakfast a little 
male English Sparrow was chirping away on 
tiie side of the house. A piece of siding 
had cracked and had been fixed again leaving 
in one place a hole that he could put his 
head in the hole and tried to pull off pieces 
so as to make it larger. Then he hopped 
further along and chirped again. Then a 
female came down to examine the hole while he 
chirped at her. She seemed afraid and looked 
around anxiously. Then another female came 
down between the other two. Then came the 
strangest part. The male fluffed out his 
feathers and gave a low note like se-se-se-se 
turning round and round and bowing to her. 
Then they flew off. One of the male’s favorite 
perches was the eavespout. He ran his chirps 
together and was calling for a mate. 
After breakfast a Dhite breasted Nuthatch 
came out on the woodpile. It came on to the 
ground and hopped around iike a sparrow. It 
then flew off, starting from the ground and 
came back with another. 
A short time afterwards I looked at the dead 
elm and there was a big blue.iay pecking away 
at the suet. He flapped his wings and pulled 
