Colebrook, N.H.
1896
June 14
(no 2)
  After tea I took a long walk about the outskirts of Colebrook.
As I crossed the bridge over the little river Yellow Warblers were
singing both above and below in dense thickets on the banks of
the stream. A Cat-bird was singing in a tree close over the
river flitting from branch to branch at short intervals. He
was an unusually fine singer & successful mimic imitating the
metallic call of the Kingbird and the que-quech of the Alder
Flycatcher so perfectly that I doubt if the birds themselves could
have detected any flaw in the rendering. For some time I
supposed that there really was an Alder Flycatcher in the
same tree with the Cat bird.
[margin]Yellow Warblers[/margin]
[margin]Cat bird[/margin]
  Swifts in considerable numbers & a few Martins were flying
about over the house tops and four Martins were sitting in
a row on the ridge pole of a barn near a large Martin-
house on a pole in a garden. There was another Martin looking
out of one of the holes of this box but most of the
compartments were occupied by English Sparrows.
[margin]Swifts
Martins[/margin]
  Near the railroad station I saw a pair of Martins which were
apparently nesting in a "witch's cap" on an electric lamp.
The [female] went into the cap and remained there. I could see her
head and portion of the nest protruding over the edge of
the board in the top of the cap.
  Savanna Sparrows were very numerous in the fields just
outside the village & I heard one Bobolink there. I also
heard a White-throated Sparrow on a steep hillside. So far as
I could ascertain there were neither Orioles nor Warbling Vireos
in the village.