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tree. They were Evening Grosbeaks. There were about 15 of them. They went out along the branches easily to get at the bunches of seeds and hanging head down while eating them. About half of them were males showing the yellow plainly. A woman came out and pumped a pail of water right under them but they were not afraid. After eating all the seeds they could find they flew off towards the upper

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part of town. Thier flight was slightly bounding. They about the size of Robins.

I stuck my head out the window and told Clarence Cook and Burr Dickie who were skating on a pond about it.
Burr asked me what the names of some large yellow birds with black on thier heads were. I told him that they were Evening Grosbeaks.
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