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and tugged with all his might. Then caught 
sight of me and flew off. 
February 22, 1900, Thursday . 
This morning the evening grosbeaks came again 
while I was dressing. It had snowed all night. 
They were climbing around and reaching in a 
characteristic way. In fact it is the most 
noticeable thing about them at first sight. 
When I came out they all flew off and gave a 
note almost exactly like a martin's. One or two 
gave a loud frog like terp . 
They flew down into Hacketts woods where 
there are a lot of box-elder trees. They feed 
on the dried seeds as far as I can find almost 
entirely. 
Went out doors this morning before breakfast. 
I heard a low kwer kwer kwer and out into sight 
to see what it Was and it was a bluejay. 
About 9:30 two pine siskins were feeding out 
in the garden. I did not see them till they flew. 
Scattered wheat, corn, sunflower seeds and bread 
for them. 
The suet was all gone excepting two pieces up 
in the maple. 
After dinner went out and was pumping water. 
I looked in the maple and there was the male downy 
woodpecker hanging from a swinging piece of suet 
and eating. He was rather afraid of me and when 
I was nearly ready to go in threw himself over 
backwards and flew to a limb. 
The pine siskins did not come back but about 
10 English sparrows were feeding. 
In the afternoon about 2 oclock I went for a 
walk as I got near Fisk's pasture a horned lark flew 
over. I heard one singing and went to look for it. 
It was standing erect on a log and singing, another 
answered. It was like a duet. The song sounded 
like Kul kip kul kip kul kip pte kip pte kip pte 
te. I tried to get through the fence but it flew 
