Concord, Mass.
1909.
March 18
(No 2)
  Found a large flock of red Polls in Birch Field.
They flew up from the ground and alighted in low trees
where I counted 80. There were still others in pines which
I heard but did not see. They were so restless that I
was unable to inspect many of them closely, but I
noticed at least 8 or 10 rosy-breasted males, three of
them sitting close together on the same branch. They must
have stripped the birches of their seeds during the
winter for I could detect no "cones" on any of these
trees to-day although they were thickly hung with
them last winter. The Red polls are apparently
now reduced to gleaning the fallen and scattered seeds
for they returned to the ground beneath the birches as
soon as they recovered from their alarm at my intrusion.
Most of them chose open & mossy or grassy places
but a dozen or more descended into a dense
Large flock of Redpolls