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February £6, 1900 - Monday. 
This morning when I went' but to pump the 
water the white breasted nuthatch wa3 on the 
little elm not 6 feet away. Just then a big 
bluejay flew over and he mistook it for a hawk 
and flew quickly to the big maple. 
Burl* Dickie told me that he had a blue jay in 
a trap. Went up to get it tonight after school. 
When I took it out it gave twice a thin note 
like yike yike . It hung onto my thumb all the 
way home but did not pinch hard. It flew out of 
my hand as 1 opened the door and got away. 
Then I went up by Hanger’s. A little redpoll 
came and settled on a branch 3 ft. above me in a 
Norway spruce for the night. 
February 27, 1900 - Tuesday . 
This morning a bluejay lit in the big maple 
and gave a note like pe le kul . Then he went 
down to the suet glancing at the window every 
instant. I got in the kitchen and put my head 
just in the middle of the curtain. He saw ms after 
a little and flew off. 
February 28, 1900 - Wednesday . 
Today while we v/ere piling over some wood I 
got quite a lot of the larvae of the Isabel la 
moth, caterpillars and squash bugs. I put them on 
the little elm on a piece of suet. 
At noon they v/ere all gone but 1 did not see 
what took them. 
MARCH. 
Marc h 1, 1900 - Thursday. 
Got some more bugs this morning and a number of 
pupae. 1 put them out before breakfast and after¬ 
wards I saw one of the white-breasted nuthatch 
eating them. lie would jam them into the bark and 
pick them to pieces. A few times he v/ent over on 
the church sheds and jammed them between tv/o 
shingles. 
