I could focus her in my reading glasses. She stayed there about 5 minutes. Her technique on the wire has greatly improved. Her longest toe would be capable of encircling the wire (counting the claw) possibly three times, if it is flexible enough. This time she pinched the wire, holding it in a location corresponding to that of a nut in nut-crackers, and where there was a cross-wire fastened, used that as extra support. When the birds had finished the worms (Greenie's had to be dropped to him) they spent about 10 minutes at my feet where the ground is baked hard and seemed to offer no prospects of a food supply. Yet in an area no bigger than perhaps 10 square feet they found a lot to eat. I could identify positively but three things: a yellow-jacket, a spider and a moth. They picked up things where I could see nothing (I have no difficulty in seeing this period (.) at ten feet) and also were able to break the hard crust by taking advantage of a crack or some other small break in its texture. Straight hammering (tried by Greenie) was not very effective. When they had finished with this small area, they moved off into the heavy undergrowth foraging as they went. 2:40. I have spent the last ten minutes in the glade. During this time Brownie spent about 5 minutes on my knee, the burden of her talk being: Pee-e-Youri--tee-tsee Greenie sat behind me on a branch where I could hand him worms without rising from the chair. A small fly (I wonder if its B's) flew around my hand and B. made several unsuccessful efforts to snap him. A Vigors wren fed from the soft-food dish, three spotted towhees were in and out. One of them was from the late August brood. He is now fully colored except that his head is light brown with a 1/2 inch wide black stripe extending over the top from his bill to his black back. This started as a thin line. On August 21st. he was a feather-