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Slops are emptied in the garden as near as I could tell they were nearly all males They were frightened at something and flew up in the big Maple where I had some pieces of suet hung. They perched within 2 ft of it but took no notice of it. Then 5 males flew down on the platform about 5 feet from me and tried everything that 

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looked good to eat. One would see a little tiny fragment of bone and would take it in its bill and chew it a little and then throw it away. They looked up at me as if wondering what I was doing. 

Jan. 28, Sunday. 
This morning I saw some sparrows on the steps they fed for a while and then saw me and flew away. I