I felt certain that Rhody would be found out of the wind, and that meant to the north or the north west. At 2:10 I found him sitting in a bush outside the fence at the north-west corner. I had previously passed there half a dozen times and called. He was not very hungry but condescended to come and take a big piece of Hamburger from my fingers and gulp it neatly, making no comment either before or after. There have been several hawks flying low over the trees today, and that is probably one reason for Rhody's being so hard to find. At 3:30 Neo was still at his "home" (I hope it is) place on the south bank. I could neither see nor hear him, but when I talk- ed he answered with soft twitters. He was up in the honeysuckle and would not come down, yet despite his recent shyness, when I reached in through the tangle he threaded his way through it confidingly and took worms, a centipede and a wormlike salamander from my fingers. (Completely cloudy, blustery sou'easter, 50° in court, hawks still present). At 5 P.M. he again responded to call for food from the same place in the honeysuckle. Rhody's roosting time was not noted, but, at 5:30, Julio found him in his house. He said that Rhody had something that looked like feathers sticking to his bill. Jan. 31st. (Sunrise 7:15, sunset 5:31). It began to rain sometime before midnight last night and was still raining when daylight came. No early thrasher song heard. Rain ceased to fall about 11:30. I found Neo where I last saw him, ready for worms. Only the top of his head and his tail look- ed wet. Meanwhile Julio found Rhody still in his house--not hungry, and with no feathers on his bill. At 12:15 P.M. Rhody was not in his house, but came quickly out of the bushes somewhere on call, dry, clean and lively. He was glad to have meat. The sun broke through the clouds while I was with Rhody and Brokenwing sounded off from his territory to the south and, on my way back here, Neo was heard singing loudly in the orchard. I found him in a peach tree apparently inspired by Brokenwing's announcements down below. Neo continued to sing a loud, "imperative" song for several minutes, then dropped down to the ground and began to dig furiously under the fig tree, abandoning this work to come and get Hamburger from me. After eating he resumed his full song. Rhody retires before 1:30 P.M. At 1:30 Rhody was found back in his house, having as later visits proved, given up all hope of there being agreeable road-runner weather during the rest of the afternoon, although it was not rain- ing at the time. Soon it began to rain again and kept it up, thus justifying his forecast of events. Little more was heard from the thrashers during the day, though Neo was contacted at his home place twice again and Broken- wing occasionally called.