Fox Sparrows 
sing 
and feed 
all day 
Their unusual 
tameness 
One of them 
eats a piece 
of raw apple 
Cooper* s Hawk 
interrupts 
the Sparrow *s 
feast 
I make all these statements advisedly, for all are 
literally true. At no time during the entire day (save 
occasionally for brief intervals, when Larry, the Irish 
terrier, disturbed them) were there less than a dozen or 
more birds busy with the seeds nor less than two or more 
in full song. As to their tameness, the Fox Sparrows 
seemed to finally lose all fear of us. When I went out 
to replenish the food supply they would come about me 
almost underfoot and as I stood at the window one alighted 
on the sill and calmly regarded me with its bright beady 
eyes from a distance of less than two feet. Another 
hopped up on the sill of the open door and peeped into 
A third, not three yards from me, to whom 
the cabin curiously./ I threw a piece of a Baldwin apple, 
met it almost before it had ceased rolling down the bank 
and at once seized and began eating it almost as unhesi¬ 
tatingly as a dog will take food from his master. The 
J\incos and Robins were scarcely less trustful. 
Just before noon the general sense of security 
which evidently prevailed among all the birds was sud¬ 
denly and rudely dispelled. I had gone to the wood-shed 
for something and was on my way back when a male 
Cooper’s Hawk,coming from I know not where, dropped into 
the very middle of a group of Fox Sparrows feeding in 
the path in front of the cabin. I saw him clutch at one 
of them with widely opened tsdons (of his right foot) but 
the Sparrow dodged him and escaped. 
