1893
May 31
Drive from Concord to Cambridge, Mass.
  Cloudy most of the day with brisk S. W. wind; rather cool
save during the brief intervals when the sun shone. 
  At 11 A.M. I piled the old buggy high with valisses, coats,
shawls & various of my things that have accumulated at
Concord and drove to Cambridge - over the Lexington road
to beyond "Grasslands Farm", thence through Allen Street, a
beautiful, winding lane, to the turnpike, through Rock
Meadow to Brown's and down past the Waverley Mill ponds.
Within the limits of Concord I heard a Golden wing Warbler
singing (in "Hall's") and saw a Wood thrush sitting on her
nest.
  The position of the Wood Thrush's nest was remarkable.
It was built in the fork of a small, scantily-foliaged
elder on the side of the road not more than 15 ft from
the road bed itself and quite outside the maple swamp
where I have heard the male Thrush singing this spring. The
elder was [delete]not[/delete] a solitary bush that [delete]stood[/delete] grew on a grassy
flat in the full blaze of the sun. The nest was so conspicuous
that no one could possibly pass along the road without
seeing it. The female Thrush was sitting; her back was
below the rim of the nest and her bill and tail alone
showing, both pointing upwards at an angle of about 45[degrees].
I did not disturb her so do not know what the nest
contained.
[margin]Wood Thrush's
nest in
unusual
place.[/margin]
  About mid-way between Concord & Lexington but within the
latter town (& not far from the bluff where, according to
a stone placed by the roadside, the British troops made a stand
during their retreat Apr. 19, 1775) I heard a White eyed Vireo
singing in an alder swamp. This is the most western locality I
know on this road.
[margin]White-eyed
Vireo[/margin]