December 1, 190J.. 
Voli’s woods - HjbOp.m. 
Watched a pair of white-breasted, nut¬ 
hatches for some time. They did not like 
to have me around at first. They climbed 
ftotes around angrily and gave noteslike er er 
erer er er with variations for about 5 
minutes. The notes were high pitched and 
nasal and were given with great force. 
fictions They flitted their wings nervou^y while 
going along horizontal limbs. But soon 
they became reconciled to my presence and 
went on with their feeding occasional 
ft°tes notes like ick or eck . They never became 
separated very far. The male made most 
of the noise. They fed on the elms 
feeding principally and got insects from the bark. 
habits If one got a grub while I was too close it 
would fly with it to another tree. They 
kept a sharp outlook for hawks. Generally 
bending the head up to look while hanging* 
head down. They probed for food 
occasionally hammering out a grub. 
December 2, 1901 . 
Hall’s in Baraboo - 8:15 a.m. 
Evening grosbeaks are quite thick this 
morning. They are flying around in great 
numbers though generally singly or in 
Jiotes pairs. I hear their loud terp all the time, 
A male lit in an oak in the yard and 
stayed there for sometime. I went out to 
watch it. It sat on the top most branch 
iptejs and looked around on all sides giving terp 
(the e like a without the e sound) and 
another note like tru-e-eep the e slightly 
trilled. After a little he started to fly 
but got slightly entangled in the twigs 
and gave an impatient angry note liketru 
— , u _ tur • flight the vjing marks of 
white are very consicuous. 
