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fence where he had been boring for [[?]].  I looking around quite a little but I only found 5 or 6 bars that he had eaten into When I came back I saw the Red-Head carrying a large piece of bark to a tree but he dropped it.  Then as it was getting dark I went home.
Oct. 11, Wednesday.
Saw a chicadee this morning eating from flower seeds.  It would look up and call very questionally and

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then reach over and take a seed and fly off with to to a tree where with a few blows of its bill get out the meat and come back for another.  There were a pair of them.
Oct. 13 Friday 
This morning the sun came out bright as I got out to the barn.  6 or 8 Red-winged blackbirds flew over screaming hardly none of them had red epaulets.  Then a [[sun?]] shower came up and I wondered if a