1892
July 9
(No 2)
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord.- Visiting the Carolina Dove's nest in the pine
by the brook at Davis's hill I found the bird on
and approached within a few yards of her but did 
not frighten her off. She sat absolutely motionless with
tail closed and raised, head held high and neck
strongly arched thus [diagram]. Her large dark eye was
fixed on me and did not once wink while I was
looking at her through my glass (two or three minutes).
[margin] Nest of
Carolina Dove [/margin]
  Wilson's Thrushes were singing freely both in my
swamp and on Holden's hill.
  Barn swallows have appeared on the river with their
young since I last went down stream. I counted no
less than seven broods to-day with 3,3,3,3,4,4, and
5 young respectively. The young of each brood was perched
within a few feet or inches of each other usually on the
leafy branch of a maple or willow low over the water but
sometimes on a dead branch. The parents (both sexes) were
feeding them largely if not wholly with [delete] you [/delete] small moths.
When the parent bird approached the latter would open
its mouth wide and chatter loudly at the same time
quivering its wings. It usually received the moth in the
tip of its bill and swallowed it at once. The parent
never seemed to hesitate in its choice of the young
bird which it afterwards fed but flew directly to
one or other of the fluffy little group. Once I saw
an old swallow feed the same young bird three 
times in succession although four other young were
huddled together not four feet off.
[margin]Young Baker
Swallows[/margin]
  Bank swallows were present in about the usual
numbers and I saw no young birds among them.
  A Green Heron started from the bushes at Hart's Ponds