CONCORD 
1811 
A0i1. 9 
Yesterday there were comparatively few birds 
about. To-day the whole country was flooded with them. 
I believe that very many which had passed farther north 
Floods of 
returned during last nighty as sometimes happens when there 
birds 
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is a sudden change to winter conditions at this season. 
[The number at ®ur seed bed increased steadily through the 
forenoon. At breakfast time there were not more than 40, 
Over 100 
all told. About noon I counted 74 Fox Sparrows and over 30 
birds at 
Juncos on the ground at once. With those in neighboring 
our iSe-ed bed 
trees there must have been over 80 Fox Sparrows and 40 
Juncos. There were also at least 5 Robins and 4 or 5 Song 
a 
Sparrows, a male Bluebird, and a male Downy,/male Nuthatch 
and 2 Chickadees at the seed. A Savanna Sparrow rambled 
about the edge of the geed bed but seemed afraid to enter it7\ 
We put a lot of seed in the open-fronted wood-shed which 
for a time was alive with birds. The Robins, Fox Sparrows, 
Juncos and Song Sparrows entered it freely and all these 
Sparrows also went in under the tool-shed. There was prac¬ 
tically continuous singing on the part of Fox Sparrows and 
Juncos from daybreak to evening twilight — a veritable feast 
of delightful music. The Fox Sparrows sang freely on the 
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ground. They scratched incessantly until it looked as if 
pigs had been rooting there. Also, they fought incessantly, 
chasing one another and rising bill to bill into the air. 
