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with the yellow husks which they have dropped. One found a dried up grub but lost its grip on it and dropped it. It got it but I, in trying to see how close I could get made it lose it again. I remained quiet and it lit in the snow but flew without it when it saw me. It did not come near while I remained but I do not doubt that as soon as I was out of sight it got it again. They held the seeds firmly between both feet and hammered at them until they were broken. 

A Downy Woodpecker was hunting through Weinke's

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clearing. It seemed out of place in the open hunting on Mullein stalks and Oak bushes three or four feet high. I followed losely until it became alarmed and flew to the trees.

Crossed the road a went down in an offshoot of Hawk Creek. Heard a thin high note repeated excitedly from a clump of Pines above me and recognised it as coming from a Red-breasted Nuthatch. I thought from the sound that it had found an Owl. As I approached the note ceased and I could find neither Nuthatch nor Owl in the thick dark Pines.