1875. 
Turdus niijji-atorius . 
MiddlosGX County, !'ass. 
{Jan,37 )\ 
28. 
A f'lock or about tliirtj^ tn Watortovm at ■bis sea¬ 
son i.hay food exclusively on the borrios of trees chief¬ 
ly of cedar’s, never attacking the asparagus beds until 
laoor in tne ’f,'inter when those berries liave become soft- 
er.iOd by alt:)r:^ 0 ,to freezing and thav/ing. 
Large numbors in Belmont, in three dirforent places 
In one a.t I'O. st fift. v/ere sca ' erod .about in a;,.: apple 
orcu.ard, occasionally visiting some private bushes on 
v/’i.oso blacJ: clustering b:!rri'->s they now fe-ed greedilj'. 
The sudden appearance of’ such n'mibeus of Robins at so 
oauly fi da,te is rernarkabl '. especially in view of the 
fact that for the past few v/eoks the v/oau 
exceptionally severe and tlio snow deep 
tiiaf- there \/as 
as been 
only 
fO\/ SC! 
tior> in 
notes ir 
sunsliini 
coring 
December. Yesterday I hoard one warbling 
h ei' 
I an certain 
flocks in t'his sec- 
1 f ow 
an : in do.'tone; it seemed 
as if onl- 
gleam of 
Feb. 18. 
Aboil 
ras noedod to make him burst forth in full 
if t 
song. 
Watertov/n sitting among the apple— 
tr-ios and fluttering over a noighboeing asparagus bod. 
Wiiila the air v/as filled witli birds passing to arid f'ro 
betvz-een tlie iroes and berri 
3S . 
They vrore Very noisy 
calling incessantly and the young birds breaking out that 
every nov/ and tnen into practicing song peculiar to this 
season, 
Mar. 22. |! Abou ^ lialf 8. dozen to-c’ay. The hulk disappeuTed 
jj v/'ith the Cedar Bird some tv/o oi* three v/’ooks since. 
Apr. 
Th.j 
wY 0 i’o abundant, at 
May 21. 
29. 
July 30 
Aug, 
a.pp:)arod about the garden yest'orday and to-day 
, iwilight this evening they vroro sing- 
ing overy\Yhore. I recognized one v/ith a rather wheezy 
Voice as an old a-cqu.aintarice v/ho has bred on our place 
s 0 ve r a1 s ummo r s. 
Nest four fresh eggs. 
Maynard found a nest with one egg in a stone pal1 
One sitting on tvfo eggs. 
They are already roosting nightly in the maple 
sv;amp north of Block Island. The flight begins now 
about I P.M. and lasts till it is nearly pi'tch dark, 
thousands O; birds coming from all directions and various 
dis Gances. Y/ith .hern roost Crovr Blackbirds, Rod-wings 
Coy/-birds, and a few Barn and Bank Syrallows.^ I estima¬ 
ted the number of birds that passed my station this even¬ 
ing at at least twenty-five thousand (25000) and as many 
^moro probably came iri^from the other side. .Long after 
dark they kept-up a continual conversational chatter all 
over the sv/amp-. 
13 
A few still singing. 
