1892
July 9
(no.3)
Concord, Massachusetts
Mass.
Concord - Young Kingfishers, very tame, and still with noticeably short tails and crests, were scattered all along the river. Of course I saw the same birds many times but there must have been four or five of them in all. The parent birds did not seem to be attending them and I was thinking about this and wondering when and how the young begins to catch fish when one of them fluttered feebly out over the water and poising clumsily for a moment dove down in the usual manner but just before he reached the surface he turned upward again. Thus my question was at least partially answered.  
[margin]Young Kingfishers[/margin] .

   Musk Tortoises (the small snapping Turtles) were out in the branches of trees and bushes over the waters in considerable numbers to-day but I saw no Painted Tortoises.  In a sandy, open field on my land, when Tortoises came out numerously to lay in May I found to-day a large number of egg shells by the side of a hole which the Skunk had evidently dug.  The Skunk must have keen scent to detect the presence of these eggs four or five inches under ground.
  Reached the Buttricks[?] at 3P.M. and spent nearly three hours sitting in my canoe watching the Flicker's nest.
[margin]Flickers nest[/margin]. 

It was raining part of the time.  This is my record.
3-4P.M.  No old bird. Young impatient looking out of hole and pecking at the trunk within.
4.10  [Female] parent comes into tree and laughs[?]. Young at once show themselves and two of them climb quite outside the nest and sit erect on the top of the stump calling pe-uk exactly like an