Concord, Mass.
1893
June 26  
  Morning cloudy; afternoon clear. Cool with N.E wind.
  Returning from Connecticut to-day. I reached Concord at
about 6.30 P.M. Saw a Dove flying over the fields in Lincoln[.]
  After tea walked up the Estabrook road to Dutton's. Birds                                      
singing freely - a Thrasher, 2 Yellow Warblers, 4 Grass Finches, 3
Bobolinks, 2 Maryland Yellow throats, 3 chippers, 3 Field Sparrows,
1 Robin, 1 Redwing, 1 Oven Bird, 4 Song Sparrows, 2 Wood Thrushers,
a Tanager and a Yellow - winged Sparrow. After dusk 2 Whippoorwills.
[margin]Birds singing 
at sunset.[/margin]
  Near the Buttericks' I heard a Yellow billed Cuckoo utter                                          
the woodeny rattle several times; it was answered by another
in feeble, hurried tones which I took to be those of a young
bird just from the nest. After the old bird ceased the
young(?) uttered these notes at the briefest possible intervals
dozen of times in succession in a willow by the river.
[margin]Yellow billed 
Cuckoos[/margin]
  The singing of the grass finches was very rich and                                                   
tender this evening - quite to the best singing one ever
hears from this species. There can be no question that the
song becomes sweeter & more expressive as the summer advances
[margin]Grass finches[/margin]
  Last year a chipping Sparrow at the Buttericks['] began  at                                           
about this season to sing in a curious manner splitting his
song first into two or three, afterwards into four separate
phrases. When the Chippies returned this spring I listened for
this peculiar song but up June 2 , when I went to Conn.,
heard nothing but normal song from two males that
had settled on the farm. On my return this evening however, I
heard the split song & found the birds singing on his old station
a dead branch of an apple tree in the orchard. He divided his song into four parts.
[margin]Chipping 
Sparrow with 
peculiar song 
returns to 
Buttericks'
orchard.[/margin]