. Outing. ne grosbeak hascome. They feed a great deal on buds,ash, and maple seeds, and frozen crossbills live largely on the seedswhich they extract .from the variousevergreen cones—spruce, pine, and hem-lock. Their mellow call notes, uttered 628 THE OUTING MAGAZINE as they fly from tree to tree, thrill uswith delight. Another thrill comes when one ap-proaches a flock of small birds feedingon weed stems projecting above thesnow, thinking that they are goldfinches,and sees a crimson patch shining oneach head—redpolls, from the very farnorth. But the flock, if not of thegoldfinch, are
. Outing. ne grosbeak hascome. They feed a great deal on buds,ash, and maple seeds, and frozen crossbills live largely on the seedswhich they extract .from the variousevergreen cones—spruce, pine, and hem-lock. Their mellow call notes, uttered 628 THE OUTING MAGAZINE as they fly from tree to tree, thrill uswith delight. Another thrill comes when one ap-proaches a flock of small birds feedingon weed stems projecting above thesnow, thinking that they are goldfinches,and sees a crimson patch shining oneach head—redpolls, from the very farnorth. But the flock, if not of thegoldfinch, are more apt to prove to bethe pine siskin, which is ordinarilymore common than the redpoll, a heav-ily streaked little bird, with no colorpatch, and about the same size. Gold-finches, siskins, and redpolls all resortto trees as well as to open ground, es-pecially along the edge of woods or insecond growth, where buds, particularlythose of birches, are a great attraction. These wandering flocks of the va-. I IN ( I I I ( II o\\ I. |s A COMMON \\ INI I MORE OFTEN HEARD THAN S rious hardy Northern birds will bearcareful watching, not only on accountof their own peculiar charm, but be-cause with them are sometimes foundeven rarer strangers. Any flock of red-polls is liable to include a specimen ofthe hoary redpoll, a much paler bird,which seldom comes as far south as theUnited States. The flock of commoncedar birds sometimes has in it one ormore of the rare Bohemian waxwing,which resembles the cedar bird, but issomewhat larger and has white wingbars and a black throat. Snowflakes and horned larks oftenflock together, and with them one shouldalways look for specimens of the Lap-land longspur, a bird of about the samesize and sparrowlike in appearance,with more or less black on throat andbreast and buff col-or on. the sides ofhead and neck. An-other not commonbird which may ac-company them orbe found in theirhaunts, especiallyamong the sanddunes and beachgrass along thecoast, is th
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