Concord, Mass.
1893 
June 30                                                                                          
  Clear and rather warm.  Wind still in the E.
  Spent the day in house writing. After tea walked,
up Estabrook road as far as Dutton's.
  The Indigo Birds' nest still contains two unhatched and
doubtless infertile eggs. The two young have changed but little
in either size or appearance since they left the eggs. There was
no old bird at the nest this evening but the male sang
a few times not far off.
 Found a Phoebe's nest in Derby's lane built in a                                      
pocket shaped cavity in the perpendicular face of a sand bank
a foot or two below some earth- laden roots which projected
out from the top of the bank. The bank was so high & 
crumbling that I could not get at the nest but the
female parent flew from it and joined her mate who was
also flitting about the bank alighting on the roots near the
nest. This nest was very conspicuous because of the uniform
light yellowish color of the surrounding surface. I do not remember
to have seen before a Phoebee's nest built in the face of a
bank of clear sand. (On July 30th this nest was filled to overflowing with
young fully feathered & apparently about to fly)
[margin]Nest of 
Phoebe[/margin]
  The only meadow Lark which I have heard in Concord                                            
this week was the one near the Stock Farm yesterday. The bird
which sang in the field opposite the Buttericks' a few
mornings in early April probably failed to get a mate
& departed. There are none of these birds in the valley
behind Clarks' where they were so numerous last year.
[margin]Meadow Lark[/margin]
  I also miss the voice of the Quail during these evening                                          l
walks. Miss Butterick thinks she heard one while I was in Conn.
[margin] Quai[/margin]