. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Rural School Leaflet 819 branch to branch. I pounded on the window and called out "Go away!" in both the crow and the English language, all in vain. One braver or hungrier than the. others, with one defiant eye on me, flapped confidently down and sought to carry the suet off in his beak; to his surprise it was tied on. That seemed suspicio
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Rural School Leaflet 819 branch to branch. I pounded on the window and called out "Go away!" in both the crow and the English language, all in vain. One braver or hungrier than the. others, with one defiant eye on me, flapped confidently down and sought to carry the suet off in his beak; to his surprise it was tied on. That seemed suspicious and when we raised the window and leaning far out explained matters, he Hfted slowly with a jeering " caw " that said plainly, " I'll call sometime when you are not at home," and he and his companions disappeared up the gorge. The invited guests at the suet table were less disturbed than was I, and I suppose it is rather inconsistent to feed the chickadees and let the crows go hungry. But this suet will last the little birds a month, while it would hardly furnish a breakfast for three crows; and in philan- thropic enterprises one is obHged to draw the line somewhere even at the cost of consistency. To return to my nuthatch—• who has, by the way, just hammered off a piece of suet and thrust it into a crevice of the bark on the tree bole. Why does he do that? Is it for convenience in eating, or is it an attempt to store up some of his dinner for future need? Anyway, it is bad manners, like carrying off fruit from table d'hote. But he is polite enough in another respect: every time after eating the suet he wipes his beak on his branch napkin with great assiduity, first one side and then the other, almost as if he were sharpening it. The woodpeckers are similarly fastidious in cleaning suet off their beaks. The loud note of the nuthatch, which seems out of proportion to the size of the bird, is by no means its only note. Yesterday we observed a pair hunti
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