Concord, Mass.
1910
Nov. 2
[November 2, 1910]

  Cloudy and mild with light southerly winds.

Pine Linnets

  During the first three weeks of October there were a 
good many Pine Linnets about. I heard them almost every
morning and saw several small flocks feeding on birch seeds
near Ball's Hill. Elsewhere on my place there are few or no
gray birches which have any fruit this year and the Pine Linnets
soon stripped the trees at Ball's Hill. I am inclined to
think that they have all left this region as H. B. Bailey tells me that a number of
Pine Linnets alighted on the steamer in which
he came to Boston from Baltimore (the
last week of October) when she was south of Cape Cod. I have not
seen or heard any since October 23. Late in that month
I noted a few Lesser Redpolls & Dexter saw one good
sized flock. These birds with the Goldfinch are likely
to go hungry if they remain here this winter, because
of the scarcity of birch cones. I saw ten or a dozen
Goldfinches in our orchard to-day feeding on the ground in
a patch of woods with fifty or more Juncos. Fox Sparrows
have been rather numerous of late.