1892
June 6
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord.- Alternately sunny & overcast, great cloud masses
drifting continually across the sky driven before the
strong W. wind. Very warm.
  To Ball's Hill at 9.30 a.m. sailing down. The Flickers
which made the nest in the dead maple branch by
the Buttricks landing is now sitting and flies out
with a low war r-r-roo note every time I pass on
the way to my boat house. Her mate is still "shouting"
but less vigorously & frequently than a week ago. The
Bluebirds which nested in this same trunk about a
yard above the Flicker's nest are now feeding young in
the hole. Bluebird singing has almost wholly ceased.
[margin] Nest of a
Flicker [/margin]
  The day (May 9) after the fire I found a Robin's nest at
Ball's Hill in a young pine which stood just outside
the border of the burned track. On that date
it contained two eggs which must have been fresh as
a third was laid the next morning. This morning
the young were out of the nest flying about among
the neighboring trees their parents very anxious and fussy
about them. I did not actually look in the nest
yesterday but I passed it twice and the old birds
which were near it made no outcry. Hence I believe
that the young left it this morning.
[margin] Young Robins
leave nest on
the 27th day
after the last
egg was laid. [/margin]