November 24, 1901. 
At Home - 4:20 p.m, 
food 
actions 
weather 
Tonight a white-breasted nuthatch came to 
the suet which I put out some time ago. It 
seemed to think that the suet was hardly- 
meant for it and acted in a suspicious 
manner. It would sit by the suet and look 
from one side to the other. Then it ate a 
little. The stick with the suet on it was 
fastened to a wire stretched between two 
trees. It had some difficulty in hopping 
along the slippery stick and used its wings 
to balance. A wet snow was falling. It 
seemed to have come for a bite before going 
to bed. It was nearly dark. 
November 24, 1901. ^ 
H. Smith's - 3:00 p.m. 
All day three bluejays have stayed around 
near the house. This afternoon I went out 
and watched them. I took them to be two 
sex & males and a female. The males were very 
"~noT jealous of each other. They always stayed 
actions near the female and had frequent but short 
' set-tos over her. They kept their tails 
spread wide while near her. She did not 
pay any attention to them. While flying 
from one place to another the female kept 
the lead the other two followed behind fre¬ 
quently fighting in the air. 
food They fed on the ground with some chickens 
habit of probably eating com. They frequently flew 
feeding to a low branch and lit in another place 
after examining the ground. One gave a 
notes hard steely note like pinked twice. The 
~~ ~ usual note was kwi. A male lit on the top 
spray of a Norway’spruce. He turned his 
head down to look 
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at the others, lie staid there for quite 
