1892
July 1
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord. Cloudy with rain during the entire morning.
Light W. wind in P.M.
  At 7 a.m. I looked at the Orioles nest in the elm
in front of the house and saw at least one and I
think two young birds sitting within its mouth. Two
others were in the top of a neighboring apple tree where
the male parent visited them occasionally with food.
I did not once see him go to the nest either yesterday
or to-day nor did the female parent visit the
young in the apple tree. Last evening she went to
the nest with food after it had become nearly dark &
then flew off again. One of the young spent yesterday
afternoon on a twig two feet or more from the nest
but as twilight deepened it clambered back into the
nest.
[margin]Young Orioles[/margin]
  Birds were singing rather freely about the house all
the forenoon, Robins, a Chippy, Song Sparrows, a
Yellow-throated & Warbling Vireo, and a Cat Bird. I
also heard a Flicker "shout" once and an Oriole &
Black-billed Cuckoo. A Savanna Sparrow has taken
the place of the Yellow-wing in Mr. Keyes's field
& sings there at all hours.
[margin]Birds still
in song[/margin]
  On June 23 a boy broke off a large rotten stump
in the maple by our landing. It broke at the entrance
hole of a Flicker's nest exposing to a heavy shower which
came later in the day the five young about as big as
Bluebirds but perfectly naked & still blind. I watched
the nest for some time but no old birds came to it &
I concluded that they had deserted but to-day I find
the young alive & feathered in fact nearly of full size
[margin]Flicker's nest[/margin]