1893
April 29
(No 3)
Concord, Mass.
(Fairhaven)
  A Robin singing steadily in a river maple at
9 A.M. sat crouched low on branch its head turned
to one side as if it were frightened or listening. I watched
it for several minutes during which it did not
change its attitude perceptibly. A female Robin in another
place was collecting dry grass for its nest & already had
in its bill a bunch much larger than its head.
[margin]Robin
singing
Building[/margin]
  A Phoebee made three song flights within as many
minutes starting from and returning to the top of an 
elm by the river at some distance from any possible
nesting place. It rose twenty or thirty feet nearly
straight upward uttering as it ascended first a
chip, chip, chip, chip, chip (very like the quit of [E. nunervius?])
then running this with [delete]chippee[/delete] chip-pee, chip-pee
chippee winding up with phoebee, phoebee, phoebee, phoebee.
At the termination of the song it closed its wings &[and]
shot down like an arrow to its former perch. This
happened about 9 A.M.
[margin]Song flight
of Phoebee[/margin]
  There is a very large colony of Bronzed Grackles on
Judge Hoar's place this year. I counted 48 as
they flew from an apple tree in to the cluster of
pines where they breed. At evening they were
scattered about on the lawn feeding.
[margin]Large
colony of
Bronzed
Grackles[/margin]
  There were five or six Martins in the boxes above
Nashawtuck bridge as twice as many House Sparrows!
The Martins are evidently being crowded out.
[margin]Martins[/margin]
  Saw four Hawks, two B. lineatus one B. borealis & one [male] Circus.
[margin]Hawks[/margin]