Concord, Mass.
1893 
July 15                                                                                     
  Cloudy and sultry with strong S.W. wind.                                            
[margin]Evening walk[/margin]
  Spent the day in house writing etc. Very few                                       '
birds singing Robins, Song Sparrows, Chipping Sparrows and
Red-wings being all that I heard through the open widow.
Our Warbling Vireo, Yellow-throated Vireo & Purple Finch silent
for the first time.
[margin]Birds singing  
near the 
Buttericks'[/margin]
  After tea walked out along the Estabrook road as far
as Oak Meadow. The high wind and cloudy sky perhaps
exercised a depressing effect on the birds for I heard
singing only two Robins, two Grass Finches, one Chippy, a
Cat bird and one Oven bird. One of the midsummer
grasshoppers stridulating for the first time this season. A
single Tree toad calling at Rhodora Pool, apparently in the water.
The hay has all been harvested & the fields are bare & brown.
[margin]Birds singing
at evening 
along the
Estabrook road.[/margin]
  Looked at the Indigo birds nest near Clarks' which                                
I have not visited before for nearly two weeks. It contained
only the two unhatched eggs the [female] parent flew from
the hazel bushes near it and chirped at me anxiously
so she must have had the young concealed somewhere near.
It is a pity that I could not have ascertained the exact
time they left the nest.
[margin]Young Indigo 
Birds leave 
nest.[/margin]
  Dodge tells me that he found the nest of a small                                   
Hawk in the pines behind his house (the Dutton place)
but shot one of the parents before any legs were laid.
From his description I take the bird to have been a Sharp-shin.
Can it have been one of the pair that nested last year
in Hutchins' woods, to which they did not return this season?
[margin]Sharp-shinned 
Hawks[/margin]