Jan'y  11  
Clear with moderate N.W. wind, very cold. ther.
-6? sunrise and not above +14? at any time
during the day.
  This was the great Grosbeak day; the city was
simply flooded with them.  Whenever or wherever I
stepped out of doors I saw flocks of varying sizes
flying overhead and the sound of their piping
was always in my ears. Just after breakfast
I took a walk up Brattle Street and found
an immense flock feeding in an ash heavily
laden with fruit i Mr. Pipers place on the
corner of Fayerweather Street. I counted 149 birds
in this tree and there were fully half as many
more in another ash in front of Mr. Richardson
house on the opposite side of Brattle Street.
  At a little before noon I walked down Brattle
Street to Millar's hearing Grosbeaks continually &
seeing several flocks of from 30 to 50 birds each
They were in Hubbard park the whole day and
I saw a few on my own place but  more visible
the old cedar tree.
  I had sent word to Faxon of this condition
of things and at half-past three he arrived
and we went together to the Piper place where
we found the birds even more numerous than
had been in the morning. They had stripped
both ash trees and were operating on the fallen
fruit. Over the space covered by the spread of
the branches of the Piper ash they were crowded
together so closely as almost to conceal the snow