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March 16, 1900 - Friday. 
It is very cold today with a raw north 
wind. A white-breasted nuthatch came and got 
some suet this morning he went on the ground. 
March 17, 1900 - Saturday. 
This afternoon 6' or 7 redpolls fed out in 
the road with the English sparrows. Theij flew up 
and lit apart from the others. ^ 
March 18, 1900 - Sunday. 
This morning after “breakfast the male downy 
woodpecker came to the suet. He looked up once 
when I rattled to him. Some redpolls gave the 
peee note end he looked around to see what it was. 
"He then flew to a lower branch of the maple and 
hopped to the top and flew off. 
Went down toward H. Smith's and heard an 
English sparrow singing. Saw an American gold¬ 
finch over by the ditch. It was calling when it 
saw me, it flew down into the weeds. It was 
the first spring bird I had seen, ^aw a prarie 
horned lark. It flew off near the ground and gave 
bounds upward until it was quite high. 
Went on down farther and sat down to write 
out my notes by a hay stack. I watched a flock 
of about a dozen crows about 3/4 of a mile off. 
They flew around and cawed and then lit on a tree. 
One sailed in a circle without moving his wings. 
Went on down to the river and followed it 
nearly through Haines wood. It is nice and sunny 
today. I heard a bl tie jay and some crows. The river 
was rising and the ice cracked and the v/ater came 
out on top. Saw two white-breasted nuthatches in 
a group of big elms. A bluejay began to scream 
and another answered him. He mocked a guinea hen 
almost exactly. Then he gave a note like pe-limp 
and another like a tin trumpet.. The other one 
answered with a rattling note like kr-r-r-rk . A 
white-breasted nuthatch gave the ery-ery-ery note. 
