Cambridge, Mass.
1899.
February.
(No. 5.).
Crow and heard a Blue Jay screaming. There were a few tracks 
of Rabbits and Gray Squirrels in the woods and two or three
fresh tracks of Foxes leading across the frozen meadows.
   With the exception of this trip and a drive around Mt.
Auburn on the morning of the 26th I spent practically the en-
tire month on our home place where the following birds were
noted: -
  1. Parus atricapillus. Almost constantly present in numbers
varying from one to eight. When the weather was clear
and mild their visits to the suet were brief and infre-
quent; when cold they came to it oftener and stayed long-
er; during the great snow storm of the 12th and 13th they
scarcely left it from daylight to dark. On the 13th
there were six in the crab apple tree most of the time
and sometimes as many as three feeding on opposite sides
of the suet at once. A fourth alighted on it for a moment
but did not stay. Chickadees invariably pick at suet
with half opened bills.
  Once in January .and [sic] very frequently during February,
usually when the weather was clear and mild, we saw
Chickadees carrying small fragments of suet to various
parts of the garden and concealing them in crevices or
behind loose scales of bark as well as in dense evergreen
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