December 1, 1901. 
In Voll’s "woods - 2•10' p.m. 
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Watched a hairy woodpecker for sometime. 
It was a male. It hunted around near the 
ground on logs, stumps and fresh cut 
trees. It did not hammer like the downy 
but simply dug out all that it found. It 
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was cjuite noisy and gave its loud note 
at least once in a minute. While digging 
out a grub every 3rd stroke about it 
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would look up for a tenth of second for 
hawks. When it was behind a log from me 
it bobbed its head up and down like a 
jack-in-the-box. It did not seem to feed 
any on£ live trees. It was very restless 
and rarely stopped for an instant, ex¬ 
cept to pull at a crooked feather. It 
would lite on the butt of a stump give 
it a glance dig out a grub and then on 
to the next one. It would detect all 
flight 
the grubs on a stump at a glance. Once it 
went inside of a hollow stump. It would 
look for hawks before it flew. Finally 
it flew to a tree, then higher in another 
and then went across the river. Its 
wings made a rattling noise. 
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After a while the hairy woodpecker came 
back and went through another pile of 
stumps, logs and dead trees. It gave a 
loud rattling call like that of the 
sneez- 
downy’s only louder. When it saw anything 
suspicious it sneezed at it. a curious 
habit. It would jerk its head exactly as 
though sneezing. Sometimes it jerked' out 
a short note at the end of it. 
