flew up in front of me and. 1 knew what the tracks 
^re. The lines were where its wings had touched. 
A hollow place with old tracks leading in and 
hew ones out marked where it had spent the night. 
There must have been quite a flock of them near. 
1 started this one up again and saw where it had 
squatted down to spring into the air and its 
w ings had touched the snow while starting. 
This afternoon I went down in the fields. In 
Maine's woods I saw some tree sparrows. I watched 
them for awhile. My eye caught some larger birds. 
Moving around in a brushpile. I went toward them 
at once but the ground was so rough that I could 
hot look at them while walking. When I came up 
i saw that they were evening grosbeaks. There 
^ere 5 of them, 3 males and 2 females. They were 
sating box elder seeds. The ground all around 
Was covered v/ith them to nearly 200 feet away. 
Most had the seed broken off. The wind had turned 
since the day before and they were on all sides. 
The birds kept up a chattering note. It was very 
iow. They watched me closely. Some ate while 
°thers just sat still. Their bill could be heard 
as they cracked together. 
Heard the notes of a red-bellied woodpecker in 
the Ifend, but did not see it. In the cornfield 
ty the marsh were a great many quail tracks. I 
followed them until I came to where they had 
flown. They were very dainty and looked much like 
Slr ‘ell chicken tracks. There were places where 
they had gathered in a bunch and squatted down. 
Mound the tracks again in the plum orchard. They 
s eemed to have gone into a brush pile. 
The grosbeaks had visited a box elder tree 
*| er e. Crossed the river. Saw where the quail had 
6e n in two other brushpiles. Saw a pair of hairy 
Woodpeckers that were courting. They called and 
® c reamed at each other. There were two males and 
1 female. 
Heard a great commotion in a hollow tree and 
inally a fox squirrel stuck its head out. Y<hen 
Jj saw me it remained perfectly motionless and 
en I looked away put its head back. Went across 
