found, a junco roosting on the tip of a branch 
of a Norway spruce in front Mrs. pettey’s house# 
ft was on the east side where the ice was the 
worst. 
November 24, 1900 ~ Saturday . 
Went skating on the Half^oon this morning. It 
Was cold with a north wind. 
While crossing the railroad bridge we saw a 
crow flying overhead. Afterwards we saw the same 
one presumably flying before the wind, ^aw no 
grosbeaks. Two white-breasted nuthatches came 
hown to where we were building a fire. Saw a 
number of hairy woodpeckers on our way home. We 
8aw a junco lying by the track. It had evidently 
flown into a passing train. It was a female. The 
tip s of a few of the back feathers were tipped with 
brown and its colors were not as clearly defined 
as they are in the male. 
November 25, 1900 - Sunday. 
This morning I went down in the fields. They 
Were deserted apparently. I thought I was going 
to see nothing but in the middle of llaine's woods 
Were some tree sparrows. They were rather shy. 
Heard a bluejay. By the plum orchard I saw a fe¬ 
male hairy woodpecker. A bluejay would fly down 
and pick it once in a while and make it scream. 
The bluejay gave a note like haw haw . Then I 
Went home. 
This afternoon I went over across the river. It 
Was bright and sunny and quite warm. 
Saw some woodpeckers and white-breasted nut¬ 
hatches. 
In Volls woods beyond the spring the red-bellied 
Woodpecker was fighting a hairy woodpecker. My 
attention was attracted to them by the screams of 
a bluejay. They left off as soon as I approached. 
Went on over to the straw shed and onto the 
Peninsula below it. Saw nuthatches and chicadees. 
About 3;30 a great horned owl hooted over by the 
hemlock bluffs. It seemed to move around a good 
