CONCORD 
1906 
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waiting for the train at the West Bedford 
station this morning, I noted a flock of six White-winged 
Crossbills, the first I have seen here since November, 
1903, They were on wing, flying over the open fields, and 
they passed within forty yards of me. I heard one or more 
of them utter repeatedly both flight calls — the peenk 
note and the dry, woodeny chatter which so closely resembles 
that of the Lesser Redpoll. I now believe that similar 
sounds which I heard only very faintly, yesterday morningj 
in Prescott’s Pines, and which I suspected at the time 
to come from ■'tfhite-winged Crossbills were really made by 
that species. However that may be, there is no question 
whatever as to the identification of the birds seen to—dayjJ 
As I was returning to the farm-house this evening 
from the river, I passed through Birch Field. It was 
past six o'clock and all the light had faded from the 
west but in the east a nearly full moon shone at inter¬ 
vals through rents in the curtain of dark clouds that 
nearly filled the sky. Earlier in the day they had 
brought much wind but at this hour only a faint breeze 
stirred in the tops of the naked birches. 4'^ had stopped 
to admire the whiteness of their stems in the moonlight 
when a Saw-whet Owl called about a h\andred yards off, I 
imitated its double whistle ( heu-heu ) and the next 
moment I distinctly heard its wings flutter in a pitch 
pine within 30 yards of me. Soon after this the bird 
