Lexington, Mass.
1916
January 6
(No 3)
[January 6, 1916]

  Almost at the hill-top, yet sufficiently beneath
its eastern brow to be sheltered by this and by a neighboring
cedar grove from the full force of westerly winds, stands,
within twenty feet of the street and no further from a house,
the Box Elder which the Grosbeaks [Evening Grosbeak] have been frequenting.
They were not there when we reached it but Miss Tyler,
who had preceded us, thought she had seen them on
wing only a few minutes before. Her brother joined us
shortly as did also several of her lady friends and neighbors,
all of whom carried opera glasses and seemed more
or less keen to make use of them. After we had
stood or rambled about for perhaps half an hour without
sighting anything of interest Dr. Tyler suddenly exclaimed
"There they are"! An instant later I saw all the
members of the flock, now eleven in number, flying
across an open field to an isolated, leafless tree