Cambridge, Mass.
1914
February 1
to
March 3
(No 3)

Brown Thrasher in the Garden.

from within or without the building. He returned
to it for the last time on the evening of March 2 [March 2, 1914] and
then permitted us to go in and out several times between
sunset and dark without moving from a perch somewhat
higher up and further back than the one that he had
hitherto always occupied. Unfortunately the Nuttall Club
met that night at eight o'clock and after all the
numbers had departed at eleven I found that the
Thrasher had also gone. Percy saw him next morning
on the ground under the Parkman's apple tree, this
being the final date of observation [March 3, 1914]. Hence the bird
was with us more or less continuously from November 
23 [November 23, 1913] to March 3 [March 3, 1914] following. At the latter date the
weather was mild and the ground partly bare. After 
it we had no temperature lower than 18 [degrees] and only one
snow fall - which was of trifling amount & soon melted.
(At the date of writing the above (March 15 [March 15, 1914]) the ground is almost wholly bare)