. The oist . ng itat a distance, I thought that the Star-ling had finally invaded us. Exceptfor its size and color, its actions wereexactly like those of the Sparrowswith whom it was feeding, and it show-ed little fear of the i)assers by. Oct. 3.—The Cowbird was still job, but it was gone the^next certainly did make quite SC long stayin such a peculiar locality. Thomas D. , Pa. .«; ->. Northern Red Breasted day last summer, .May 9th, 1912,I believe, I spent some time in observ-ing one of these beautiful birds work-ing on a soft maple tree near
. The oist . ng itat a distance, I thought that the Star-ling had finally invaded us. Exceptfor its size and color, its actions wereexactly like those of the Sparrowswith whom it was feeding, and it show-ed little fear of the i)assers by. Oct. 3.—The Cowbird was still job, but it was gone the^next certainly did make quite SC long stayin such a peculiar locality. Thomas D. , Pa. .«; ->. Northern Red Breasted day last summer, .May 9th, 1912,I believe, I spent some time in observ-ing one of these beautiful birds work-ing on a soft maple tree near theedge of a large wood. It was not inthe least timid, and paid but slight at-tention to me as 1 sat watching it, yards away. - Certain portions of the trunk, andsome of the limbs of the tree were-,systematically covered, but why surface was not tapped insteadof patches of one or two square feethere and there, I cannot say. Tlie^punctures as usual w-ere in rows at,even distance THE OOLOGIST 397 When I first arrived, I noted a pinesquirrel out on one of the branches,and by his actions I soon learned thathe was getting a free drinlv of maplesap at the birds expense. Every fewminutes he would leave his positionon some other part of the tree, andwork towards the bird. The latter,with a sharp note or two, would makea few passes toward him and then flyto another part of the tree, leavingthe enterprising squirrel to lap thesap from the fresh punctures. Part of the time there were twosapsuckers present; the first havingteen joined by another, evidently itsmate. They doubtless had, or werepreparing a nest nearby, but I failedto locate it. The Northern Red-breast-ed Sapsucker, in this locality seemsto prefer the dead stubs in the top oflive maples for nesting sites, althoughthey occasionally nest in large 3, 1912, I flushed one from a holevery near the top of an enormous deadsnag. It was evidently incubating asit took several hard raps on the base
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