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March 8, 1900 - Thursday. 
This morning- I saw s ome juncos in Mrs. 
Russel’s trees. Two were fighting on the barn, 
talk about the gentle snowbird. They are fight¬ 
ing all the time and chasing each other or some 
other bird around. 
Tonight when I came home from school two 
white-breasted nuthatches came to the suet and 
the male downy woodpecker was on the swinging 
one. This noon a chicadee was on it. A certain 
number of birds come every day and I know them. 
The English sparrows get in a little crotch 
and brace themselves in when they go to roost. 
Just before dark I scared a bluejay out 
of one of H. Smith's Norway spruce. He fluttered 
around and v/as evidently about half asleep. He 
flew over to Mrs. Russel’s after knocking around 
in the Norway spruces and flew against an elm 
limb full forde on the way. It was quite light 
yet but he was a heavy sleeper. 
March 9, 1900 - Friday . 
This morning I went over back of Mr. Fisk's. 
There was a flock of about 100 redpolls there. 
One lit on the fence to look at me. They were 
(feeding on pigweed, a sudden noise would send 
them flying around only to light again at the 
same spot. I think that they have been shot at. 
I could hear their bills workirg plainly when 
they were 20 feet away. Sometimes they came 
up to within ten feet of me. They hopped. They 
would reach up as high as they could stretch for 
seeds. They seemed to be in a hurry and would 
grab a few seeds and then go on to another 
bunch. They kept up a continual noise. One note 
sounded like chcwte chewte. ' x he school bell 
scared them up and one cams circling around and 
was going to light on me but did not. 
As I was coming back I saw a junco and a red¬ 
poll in the path, the redpoll would get too near 
