Waltham, Mass.
1914
January 5
[January 5, 1914]

Baltimore Oriole in Mid winter

  At noon to-day I learned by telephone
from Mrs. Worcester of Waltham that she had seen there
this morning, in a thickly-settled neighborhood near the
Watch Factory, a male Baltimore Oriole which was in
strikingly handsome and apparently fully matured plumage.
For some two weeks past this bird has been coming,
she was told, to the piazza of a house (# 274
Crescent Street) where there are still shriveled Delaware
grapes clinging numerously to the vines. She saw the
Oriole there and also saw that the floor of the
piazza was thickly strewn with the skins of the
grapes which it had eaten. A family living next
door have been keeping a close watch on the bird & 
are much interested in it. (Walter Deane went there
on January 6 [January 6, 1914] hoping to see it but failed to do so.
It was last seen, he tells me now, rather early in the morning
of that day)