Concord, Mass.
1893  
June  27                                                                                                
  Cloudy with a light shower at 2 P.M. Wind N.E.
  We had a pic-nic at Egg rock to-day. There was
a Savanna Sparrow singing in the meadow opposite most
of the time.  Bank Swallows were flying about in
considerable numbers, a few Eave, Barn & White bellied Swallows
with them.
  After tea this evening I walked to Dutton's & back hearing
about the same number & kinds of birds as yesterday evening.
  Found an Indigo Birds nest in a small cluster of                                   
hazle bushes on the roadside opposite Clarke's House. The
female was sitting on three eggs & one young bird which
evidently had just hatched. When I started off the mother
bird she set up a loud continuous chirping which soon brought
the male. Both flitted in some birches near the nest
chirping but keeping well concealed.
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  Clear & cool
  Spent the day in Cambridge where I heard a
Grosbeak singing on Oxford Street. If there are any
Grosbeak near the Butterick farm they are silent now.
  In the evening walked to Dutton's with D.C.F.                                
Looked at the Indigo Bird's nest and found that
another egg had hatched. Birds singing freely, especially
Song Sparrows & Grass finches.
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Indigo Bird[/margin]
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  Clear & rather warm.
  In P.M. took a drive through the Estabrook road &
back around Fifty Acre Meadow.  Heard a Meadow lark near the
stock farm.