Cambridge, Mass.
1911.
Jan. 1
[January 1, 1911]

  Cloudy & mild. There is no snow but ponds and 
rivers are frozen over. The city streets were muddy to-day.

Remarkable influx of Robins

  Harold D. Mitchel of Newtonville called yesterday afternoon
to tell me - among other things - that he had seen, only
half an hour before, 110 Robins flying over Fresh Pond
towards Arlington Heights. They came, doubtless, from
the John C. Gray place where 200 or more were seen
to-day by several different persons feeding on buckthorn 
berries in the hedge bordering Fresh Pond Lane.
  Sometime this forenoon George C. Deane found a truly
remarkable assemblage of Robins on the Joseph Coolidge
farm where they were scattered all along the cart path
from just behind the Hospital to Cambridge Cemetary
feeding on the berries of the privet & barberry bushes
that line it. In one cluster of bushes he counted
50 birds, in a group of apple trees 200. He believes