February 8, 1901 - Friday. 
This morning two white-breasted nuthatches 
came to the suet the first thing. One ate while 
the other climbed around. The one on the stick 
M took a piece of suet and flew down below its 
mate. I thought it was going to drive it away 
but instead it fed it the suet. The one that 
climbed around was timid and afraid of English 
sparrows but the other was just the opposite. 
It would carry large pieces over to the church 
and put them between the bricks. It seemed to 
feel like a victorious rooster and spread its 
wings and tail and ruffled up and down the stick. 
£'he female downy v/oodpecker came and he was not 
disposed to leave. She advanced toward him 
threateningly and drove him to the end and then 
he left. 
February 9, 1901 - Saturday . 
This morning I jumped bobs. Heard some gros¬ 
beaks out south. Some prairie horned larks were 
flying around. Beyond Siels corner there were 
about a dozen of them in the road. They were 
quite tame. The males sat on the fence posts 
and sang. They walked with a dove like motion 
through the snow. They reached up and picked the 
seeds from the ragweed. They had little short 
ear tufts. 
Bode out to' Will Black's and saw a great owl 
that he had. 
He kept it in an ice house. When we went in 
it was on a rafter. He tried to poke it down. 
H e would push its body back until it level 
with the rafter before it would let go. I’inally 
it lit at n\y feet. It would hoot if you stroked 
its head. It would not bite. 
He fed it once in 3 days. It was small and 
,L I think that it was a male. 
Then we went home. 
