v ery thick around the farm houses. In one 
Place they had taken possession of a pine, There 
Were a great many sparrows at Erswells. They were 
- rather afraid. r ihey swept around in flocks and 
© fed. 
He said that last year he had a dove that would 
kill them and tear down their nests. He told me 
that the sparrows would find a knot-hole that led 
into the hay and huild theirnests where the dove 
°ould not reach them. It would hover around the 
hole and try to kill the old ones and when the 
young ones came out kill them. 
He said that he had seen a northern shrike kill 
a rat by picking out its eyes and then kill it by 
repeated blows on the forehead. I heard a white- 
dumped shrike screaming over in the woods. It 
Went kra kra kra . 
He told me that sharp-shinned hawks were called 
bullet hawk because they flew so fast. 
There were a great many hair^jsnd downy wood- 
| Peckers around. I could hear their chattering 
1 notes in all directions. 
Saw a flock of about 25 blue jays feeding in a 
c omfield. They would light on the shocks and 
bhen go down to the corn that had husked. 
On my way home I heard the note of a red-belliea 
'Wodpecker several times. I examined a tall dead 
tree from near which the sound seemed to come, but 
’ii'i not see it. I approached a little closer and 
the bird flew up from the ground. It lit on the 
^ead top of a tall tree and sat there as long as 
1 could see it. Along the road were a great number 
°f vesper sparrows in places. 
Heard crows caw and some flew over out of shot 
range. 
By the lane that leads to Brilliots hill I saw 
I a mourning dove. The first for some time. It 
A lew towards Seeley Creek. 
Then I went home. 
