and some English sparrows feeding on the cleared 
land. The tree sparrows must have arrived 
last night. They kept up a double-noted tinkling 
note like t sukern. It sounded like that to me 
\ hut it was very hard to represent. 
They gave a warning shree if another approach¬ 
ed, too close and if that was not enough fought 
each other. 
They were rather wild and would not let me get 
very close. T .Vhen they rose they lit in the trees 
hut immediately flew down again forgetful of the 
danger. They hopped v/hile on the ground. ■ 
A flock of about 25 American goldfinches flew 
down and fed on sticktights. One female lit on a 
cabbage head and ate some of the cabbage. 
Heard one of the tree sparrows give a note 
like tsik. They sang quite freely. 
Saw a 'cooper *s hawk soaring overhead. The 
chickens were much alarmed. It apparently had its 
eye on Mr. Fiske's. It came bouncing down for 
quite a distance. It would drop a short distance 
| and then check itself suddenly giving it a 
hounding motion. It flew by. 
Then I went home. 
Nov ember 4, 1900 - Sunday . 
This morning when I went out to get the water 
Pails I heard a strange note coming from the sun¬ 
flower stalk. It was like kimp kimp very sharp 
and metallic. There were two birds on it they 
looked like English sparrows. I got my glass and 
they flew away towards Hangers and lit on a pine 
tree. I followed them and saw that they were two 
female American crossbills, a new r bird to me. 
They were wild and flew over to Mrs. pettey’s and 
1ft on her Norway Spruce, after a great deal of 
k c lrcling;the flight was bounding. They twitched 
°Pen the pine cones easily. The sparrows gathered 
ar ound and watched them. After a while they flew 
°ff* I could see the bill easily. 
After breakfast 1 went down in the fields, saw 
a number of tree sparrows. They gave an alarm note 
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