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After breakfast I passed within 6 or 8 feet of the dead elm but a Downy Woodpecker kept right on eating suet.
I went out by the barn and a large Hairy Woodpecker nearly struck me in the head as he was flying. Her flight - for it was a female - was bounding.
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Feb 8, Thursday
This morning

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water covered everything - for it had rained heavily all night. While I was eating breakfast a sudden change took place. The wind went into the Northeast. and it began to freeze. a cutting fall of sleet drove the English Sparrows to shelter. Some were in the straw shed and one went in the wood pile. One tried