1892
June 17
Concord, Massachusetts.
[margin]Ball's Hill[/margin]
Mass.
Concord.- Cloudless but with smoky haze and intense heat. Wind
S.W. A very heavy thunder shower 3 to 4 P.M. After this cool.
  At sunrise this morning we had a fine chorus of
Wilson's Thrushes in the thicket in front of the house
two or three males singing at once & one coming
into the oak by our very door. There were also Maryland
Yellow-throats, Song Sparrows & Robins but no Thrashers.
Visiting the Thrasher's nest at 10 a.m. we found that
the young had left it. They must have been in the
bushes near by for the old birds came and [delete]chafed[/delete]
scolded us & one of them had food in its bill.
The young had also left the Blue Jay's nest in the
pines by the path along the river and were fluttering
cheerily from branch to branch in the neighboring
oaks making the low gasping sound which the
old bird utters at times. The young were bobtailed
& evidently just out.
[margin]Birds singing
at sunrise[/margin]
[margin]Thrasher's nest[/margin]
[margin]Nest of
Blue Jay[/margin]
  The young Robins in a nest behind the hill have
also left the nest since the 15th when I found
the old bird brooding them.
[margin]Young Robins
leave nest[/margin]
  The [delete]Carolina[/delete] Virginia Rail which was calling cutter at least up
to midnight &, as I believe, the whole of last
night kept up this cry during the entire forenoon
[delete][?][/delete] up to 3 P.M. (when the shower came) despite
the intense heat. Is there any other bird which
sings all day and all night, also?
[margin]Virginia Rail
calls all night
& most of the
following day.[/margin]
  After the shower we walked all over my land. Birds
singing freely, among others a Brown Thrasher but
he did not keep it up long.