Concord, Mass.
1893
Aug. 4
  A sunny day, warm but not oppressively so, very hazy
and, at sunset, cloudy in the south-west. Wind S., light.
  I took a short walk after breakfast. A Warbling
& Yellow-throated Vireo were singing in the Buttricks' elms 
as I left the house and an Indigo Bird on the
Derby farm. In Derby's lane I found a small mixed
flock composed of five Chickadees, three Nashville Warblers,
a Black-throated Green Warbler, a Chestnut-sided Warbler
and a Grosbeak, all of which were hopping about and
chirping at a big Gray Squirrel who was sitting on
the branch of a pine near his nest barking hoarsely.
The only bird singing in these woods was a Red-eyed
Vireo and his voice had an unmistakeable weary
listless quality as did also the Indigo Bird's just mentioned.
[margin]Birds seen
& heard 
during a
morning
walk.[/margin]
  Apparently I was just in time to note the departure
of the Phoebees [Phoebes] from their nest in the sandbank
for only one young was left in the nest, while another
sat perched on a willow near by. The old birds
did not show themselves & I saw only these 
two young.
[margin]Young Phoebees*[Phoebes]
leave their
nest in
Derby's sand
bank[/margin]
  As I crossed the fields on my way home two
Grass Finches flitted on before me, but I heard
no singing to-day.
[margin]Grass Finches[/margin]
  The Martins are getting scarce but I heard
at least one to-day. The bulk left us about
the 1st of this month.
[margin]Martins[/margin]