Concord, Mass.
1907
April 7
(No 2)
of the Junco but harder and more woodeny
in tone. As I forced my way among the
thickly growing trees I disturbed half a dozen
or more of the birds. Each, as it left its
perch to fly to another tree, made a loud
and rather protracted fluttering sound with its
wings. Most of the birds started from near the
ends of the pine branches (where the foliage is
densest as a rule) about eight or ten feet above
the ground.
 Shortly after leaving the Fox Sparrows I
reached the south end of Pine Ridge. Here I
started a dozen or more Juncos which had
gone to roost in the hemlocks that I planted
ten or twelve years ago. Some of these birds
flew out almost in my face from perches
only two or three feet above the ground. Like
the Fox Sparrows they fluttered nosily and
called tsup-tsup as they took wing but they
did not seem to be severely alarmed and
after realighting not far off they invariably
remained silent unless again approached. As
they flitted across the openings among the trees
in the gathering twilight the white outer feathers
of their widely spread tails showed most
conspicuously and sometimes I could see nothing
else.
  A number of Robins had gone to roost among
the pines on this ridge.