1892
Sept. 7
(No 4)
Concord, Massachusetts.

Mass
Concord. by broad daylight but all such venturesome spirits
descended again after more or less wide wandering
and plunged headlong into the woods or thickets. By
noon they were as quiet and reconciled to their surroundings
as if they had passed the summer here.
  The most interesting birds which I saw were:
Redstarts. 3.2.1 All in plumage of females & all I think young
birds. One seen in pines, the others in maple swamp.
Chestnut-sided Warblers. 3.1.1 All in birches & maples. One was
an adult male with flank stripes as broad and
pure chestnut as in breeding plumage but with
the crown & back green. The others showed as chestnut.
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 jnr  }    Together, forming a mixed flock,
Nashville Warbler - 1 jnr                      }  in pines & oaks on S[outh] side of
Parula Warbler - 1 jnr male                  }  Ball's Hill. I did not fully
Chickadees - 5                                     }  identify the Sparrows but one of
White-throated Sparrow (?) - 2            }  them came twice to my whistled
                                                                invitation of the pea-pea-body call
                                                                and alighted (in dense foliage) within
                                                                a few feet of my head.
Maryland Yellow-throat. - Two adult males in swampy thickets.
                                          One gave the flights song sotto voce & insisted
                                          leaving his patch.
Oven Bird. - A solitary individual in white pine woods.
Least Flycatcher. - A solitary individual in white pine woods being
                               tame & perfectly silent. I got within ten feet of
                               this bird & saw it distinctly in a good light.
Purple Martin. -       A solitary young bird flying about over 
                                the meadows, calling, at 7 a.m.


 [margin] Migration of Chestnut-sided Warblers[/margin]
[margin] Purple Martin[/margin]