Jan'y 22
(No 3)
Cambridge
saw that the back was clear bluish slaty.  The
tail was closed during flight and looked long
and pointed. The bird passed nearly over the
fountain without appearing either to notice or to
alarm the Golden-eye drake and finally alighted
in the top of an old oak on the west side of the
cove. Near the tree where I first saw it the
snow was strewn with the feathers of a Tree Sparrow
which had evidently been attacked by a Hawk of
some kind & probably by this very Falcon.
  The Fresh Pond hotel (of late years used as a 
Catholic nunnery) has been moved away since
my last visit but its surroundings have changed
very little in the last twenty-five years. In the
fine old hemlocks on the front I found a 
small flock of Chickadees and with them a male
Red-bellied Nuthatch and a Brown Creeper.  The
Chickadees and Nuthatch was busy picking the
hemlock cones to pieces, sending the scales floating 
down to the snow beneath and doubtless eating
the buds. Only one other Nuthatch of this species
has been seen hereabouts this winter although they
were abundant last autumn, their flights doubtless
having passed much further south (cf. [?] in
Auk for Jan. 1893).
[margin]Fresh P. hemlocks[/margin]
[margin]Sitta can.[/margin]
  On my way homeward through Fresh Pond Lane
I heard a Jay, a Colaptes and Tree Sparrows
and saw two Crows. There were two
Pine Grosbeaks on the Gray place in evergreens