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squatted and jumped up in the air and was gone 
in an instant. When an English sparrow is 
frightened its first impulse is to hide, it 
will squat close down wherever it is. 
March 50, 1900 - Friday . 
This morning before I went to school I 
hung out some more suet on the live elm hy the 
maple. The ground is covered with snow hut 
the air is warm. Just as I got to the school 
grounds I heard a killdeei 4 calling down by the 
river. I like to hear its singing call. It 
sounds so wild and untamable. 
This noon I put out some more suet on the 
live elm. The other piece lad a few small holes 
in it where it lad been eaten. 
Just as I started in the house I heard a 
meadowlark sing. I stopped and it sang again. I 
think that the different blackbirds should/be 
here now. 
Last year none of these birds were here 
before April 5. 
Tonight Mat Engeln and I went down in the 
fields. We saw my red-headed woodpecker. The 
next thing we saw was a tree sparrow in 
Seeley's marsh. Went on over to the island 
and saw a robin in a tree. In the edge of the 
woods we saw a white-breasted nuthatch. He 
stuck his head in a hole. He then flew to a 
branch and began to sing. After he went off 
we climbed up the tree. Just as Mat got near the 
top another nuthatch flew out. He flew to a tree 
and said quank . H e did not like it. The hole 
was about 8 inches deep. It had sawdust in the 
bottom. 1 think it was a downy woodpecker'snest. 
It was about a year old. There was a little 
crack in the bottom. 
It was in a soft maple. •M; was up about 40 
feet. Then v/e v.ent home. 
