Bird Time Feb.26 Trail Wood

Trail Wood Teale’s Feb.26th

Writer’s Note: I have walked some of the trails of Teale’s Trail Wood a few years ago. It is an excellent location for birds. The following is a winter’s day in late February:
“ Toward mid-morning today with the air still mild and the kevel and roar of the high water receding rapidly. A new source of excitement appears under the apple tree near the north wall. Six strangers, visitors we have never seen at Trail Wood before. They drop down on the wet ground and begin pecking among the over wintering fallen apples, now shrivelled and decaying and brown. All six birds have stout bills and long tails and are about the size of robins. Other detils come sharply into focus as wd look through our field glasses through our bird glasses and tick off the field marks - gray bodies, two wing bars, heads and rumps tinged with an old gold or dull yellow hue. What e are seeing are those largest of the finches, the pine grosbeaks from the mountin forests of upper New England. Al are females. None exhibit an tinging of the rosy red of adult male pine grosbeaks.”