1893
March 17
(No 2)
Cambridge, Mass.
  Two Crows, apparently mated birds, were making a
great outcry among the hemlocks on the point. They seemed
both to leave the place and circled around me, cawing
vociferously, as I advanced. I suspect they were settling
on a nesting site in one of these old trees. One of them 
uttered the kloc-kloc-kloc cry once. 
[margin][Crows[/margin]
  A Flicker perched on the top of a dead hickory called
ki-u (this rendering I noted on the spot) and was answered
at regular intervals by another on the opposite side of the
cove. Faxon heard two Flickers "shouting" at Arlington on the 14th.
[margin]Colaptes
calls[/margin]
  In the densest part of the grove the twittering & lisping of
small birds caught my attention and presently a Chickadee
a Junco and a Red bellied Nuthatch appeared flitting from tree
to tree. The Nuthatch, a fine [male], evidently the same bird
seen by me in this grove January 22, and by Hoffman Feb. 11,
descended to the ground and rambled about over a wide 
space pecking the fallen hemlock cones to pieces for their seeds.
He moved by a series of quick hops and quite as easily and
gracefully as a Sparrow. The coloring of his under parts
is much paler than it was when I last saw him in January.
After returning to the trees he relieved his feelings by indulging
in the long, drawling whine peculiar to the species. 
[margin]Red-bellied
Nuthatch[/margin]
  The Junco has also inhabited this grove during the entire
winter. It is a female, a very brown bird which much
pinkish on the flanks but evidently a true J. hyemalis.
[margin]Junco[/margin]
  A Song Sparrow chriping in the arbor vitae hedge was
perhaps a fresh arrival as no one has seen it there before.
[margin]Song Sparrow[/margin]