Lexington, Mass.
1916.
January 6
(No 4)
[January 6, 1916]

where they alighted. Remaining there only a few moments
they next flew down to some sumacs growing close about
the rear of a house and began feeding on the deep red fruit.
Here I approached them closely and watched them for several
minutes but not to good advantage, for the sun was
directly in my eyes, shining from beyond them. Before
my position could be exchanged for a better one a man
suddenly emerged from the back door of the house and
the Grosbeaks [Evening Grosbeak], evidently startled by his appearance, flew
off out of sight in an easterly direction. Nothing more 
was seen or heard of them until almost and [an] hour
later when (shortly after 11 A.M.) they reappeared among
some tall and crowded cedars just across the road
from the Box Elder into which they presently flew,
one after another, and began feasting on its partly
denuded yet still abundant fruit. Scarcely had all