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March

March 2, Monday.

This morning as I came out of Hoags door I heard a woodpecker drum and started to hunt it up. It was a Downy. He was drumming on a board fastened to a tree. He changed the pitch of his drum by moving his position slightly. The drum was 6 or 8 notes note as continuous  as those of the Hairy. Sometimes he flew to a bird box and then to a dry limb and drummed he flew with a curious flitting flight as though wishing to attract attention. 

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March 7, Saturday.

This morning Art Rudy and I went down in the fields. Prairie Horned Larks were very thick all through the bottoms. The males sang and fought among themselves vigorously.

Heard a flock of Rusty Blackbirds and finally saw them high in the air. There were 53 of them. They flew a trifle east of north. 

A Hairy Woodpecker drummed for a while and then I heard the spring note of a Red-bellied woodpecker.

Numbers of crows and Bluejays were flying around.