Cambridge, Mass.
1914
January 31
[January 31, 1914]

A wintering Brown Thrasher in our Garden.

  A Brown Thrasher is wintering here. He was
first noted by me on November 23 last [November 23, 1913] in our Garden
where we saw him again on December 14 [December 14, 1913], 19 [December 19, 1913], 20 [December 20, 1913], 21 [December 21, 1913], 23 [December 23, 1913], 30 [December 30, 1913].
On the 31st [December 31, 1913] he was seen by one of C. F. Batchelder's [Charles Foster Batchelder] sons
in grounds on Willard Street. After that I lost track of
him until January when he reappeared in our Garden.
Since then he has roosted frequently, and for the past
four nights regularly, in the honeysuckle vine that runs
up a trellis on the left side of the Museum door.
Into this he comes at nightfall, usually ten or fifteen
minutes before sunset, always settling on the same
perch in a dense cluster of tendrils about on a level
with my head, as I stand on the upper step, and
not two feet from it there. Yet he will now sit
there quite motionless when I pass in or out, or
even when I stop to look at him in the twilight,