January 24, 1901 - Thursda y. 
This morning the' female' hairy hung to a 
swinging piece of suet hack down by its feet. 
It had its tail bent around but could not reach 
it. It hung with feet only and ate. When 
I approached it it turned over and flew to the 
tree. 
The downy flies queerly. There is not room 
to bound and it flies like a common bird. 
January 26, 1901 - Saturday. 
This morning Art Kudy,Burr Dickie, Jim 
Seeley and 1 went over to the hemlock bluffs. 
By the plum orchard there were some ears of 
corn on the ice. The bluejays had eaten them. 
Thier wing marks were on the snow around them. 
Saw the red-bellied woodpecker. Followed clear 
over to the hemlocks. "e found 8 phoebes nests 
in a cave over there. 
By IT. Hacketts on our way back we found a 
mouse that had been impaled on a pointed stick. 
The head and forequarters were eaten off. It 
was the common short-tailed meadow mouse. 
(Northern shrike). It was freshly eaten. Then 
we went home. 
January 27, 1901 - Sunda y. 
This morning 1 went down in the fields. In 
the plum orchard I saw where a blue jay had been 
digging something out of the snow in several 
places just before I came. Saw it in the trees. 
It sat perfectly still sunning itself. It 
would shake its feathers out and smooth them. 
I could hardly see it when it sat still in the 
thick branches. Went over to where that mouse 
was. It was .,one. A little farther on I found 
another hung in a crotch. The head was eaten 
off. Watched it for 80 minues but the shrike 
did not come back. It was still warm. Took it 
home and drew it. 
