Bethel, Maine.
1913.
Nov. 15-22 
(No 6)

Evening Grosbeak.

been viewed to excellent advantage by William Bingham 2nd, one 
of my fellow guests, who on approaching the brown cottage, noticed 
the bird perched in a forsythia bush growing by the front 
porch directly beneath my window. Standing within fifteen feet 
of it he had it in full sunlight and watched it for several 
minutes noting especially its short, thick bill and its intermingling 
grayish, olivaceous and yellow coloring - for according to his 
description it must have been either a [female] or a young [male].
By imitating its whistle he set it to calling excitedly. This 
happened just as I was leaving the Gehring house. Half a 
minute later the cat ran across the lawn towards it and 
caused it to take flight, when it sought refuge in another 
& neighboring thicket - where I overlooked it. It was perhaps 
attracted to thickets by our door by the Japanese barberry bushes - 
loaded at the time with bright red fruit. Thus by a narrow 
chance did I both see & hear, yet fail to satisfactorily view, my 
first evening Grosbeak.