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have been a hairy woodpecker. Heard a prarie 
horned lark on my to school from the woods. 
Today I looked out of the window in school 
just as a female English sparrow lit on the 
woodpile. She sat there looking at me, quirking 
her tail as long as I looked. 
After dinner I went down in the fields for 
a few minutes. I saw nothing hut a half dozen 
prarie horned larks. I noticed that when on a 
fence post they stood upright. They could alight 
in the "middle of a post. The flight was rather 
tippy. The wings were ouite large. The bird is 
as large as a bluebird and is longer. 
After school Mat Engeln and 1 went down in 
the field. Saw a crow flying over down in 
Maines v/oods. Near the boundary fence we found 
a pellet that had ejected by some bird of prey. 
It contained three claws that were from 3/4 to 1 
inch long, and a piece of cloth. One of the 
claws had a piece of bone attached to it and I 
found another. The rest was a small dust like 
corn-meal, ent over to the Island. Mat climbed 
a tree to another nest like that one that Andrew 
and I found. 
It had cornleaves and sla|ks in it. Heard 
a hairy woodpecker give a loud note like ^ski tter 
r-r -r- It sounded like a kingfisher. I climbed 
up to a woodpecker's hole and found that it was 
lined with bark, excelsior and grass. 
“e heard a barred owl over in Hackett’s 
woods hoot. It sounded like a dog. I would put 
it down as whoo who who who who ah who ah and 
another answered who ah . Mat found a red-eyed 
vireo’s ne3t. We 'climbed up a big swamp maple 
and found an old crows nest. It was made of 
sticks and leaves. 
In a hole at the top v/e found a bluebird’s 
nest made of bark ana grass. We heard a white- 
brea3ted nuthatch singing. 
