Concord, Mass.
1907
April 9
(No 3)
as pet canaries or domestic Pigeons. I make all
these statements advisedly for all are literally true.
Fox Sparrows
At no time during the entire day (save occasionally
for brief intervals, when Larry, the Irish terrier, disturbed
them) were there less than a dozen or more birds
busy with the seeds nor less than two or more
in full song. As to their tameness the Fox Sparrows
seemed to finally lose all fear of us. When I went 
out to replenish the food supply they would come
about me almost underfoot and as I stood at
the window one alighted on the sill and
calmly regarded me with its bright beady eyes from
a distance of less than two feet. Another hopped up
on the sill of the open door and peeped into the 
cabin curiously. A third, not three yards from
me, to whom I threw a piece of a Baldwin 
apple met it almost before it had ceased rolling
down the bank and at once seized and began
eating it almost as enthusiastically as a dog
will take food from his master. The Juncos
and Robins were scarcely less trustful.
They sing & feed all day
Their unusual tameness
One of them eats a piece of raw apple
  Just before noon the general sense of security
which evidently prevailed among all these birds was
suddenly and rudely dispelled. I had gone to 
the wood shed for something and was on my way 
back when a male Cooper's Hawk coming from 
I know not where dropped into the very middle
of a group of Fox Sparrows feeding in the path
in front of the cabin. I saw him clutch at one
of them with widely opened talons (of his right
foot) but the Sparrow dodged him and escaped
Cooper's Hawk interrupts the Sparrow's feast