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February 10, Tuesday.

This morning I heard a loud rattling drum over by Stanley's and saw a female Hairy Woodpecker drumming. This struck as queer because I thought that the males did the drumming. It would drum and then look around and listen. People going by did not frighten it in the least. The drum was about 15 strokes given very fast. The bill was held about half an inch from the bark for an instant before drumming. perhaps it was a male without the red patch.

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February 16, Monday.

Jacques Pfarmstiehl told me that in going to Portage Saturday the fourteenth He had seen three Mourning Doves and a Red-tailed Hawk. The Hawk might be a migrant but I think that the Doves must have stayed all winter. Rob Clark was telling me about a hill called Coon Bluff east of Baraboo which was covered with small cacti. This region will probably be a good place to explore next summer and will probably yield new forms being most likely in a different life region than here.