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very quick. I can stand back from the window and expose just enough of my head to see them but they spy me immediately.
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About 9:30 Jim Draper came after me. He said that the Evening Grosbeaks were up by Lawton's. Out by the side of a church we saw a young one hopping around on the ground. It was very tame

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and let us get within 8 or 10 feet of it. Then it flew of just over our heads. Walter Draper on the other side of the street said that there were a lot of them down by Lawtons. Just then they flew over near us. there were about 25 of them.

The male's back, lower half of wings, lower breast and belly yellow; belly lighter; upper breast, dusky yellow; tails