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Concord, Mass.
1897.
April 23
  Weather very like that of yesterday but much warmer
(about 70 [degrees] at noon) with high S.W. wind.
  Spent most of the day planting pines but in
the early afternoon I went to Bensen's pine knoll
and spent an hour or more rambling about through
the beautiful openings or lying under the shade (very
grateful to-day) of the trees. The birds were very
silent. Indeed I heard only a Field Sparrow and
two or three Pine Warblers during this walk.
  On the 21st I was following the wood road
which leads through these pines when I started a
Dove from a very large & bushy white pine which
stands in the opening south west of the Glacial Hollow.
 A Dove reared a pair of young in a nest in a
large cedar near this pine four or five years ago and
something in the manner with which this bird
started [delete]on this occasion[/margin] led me to suspect that
she flew from her nest but I could not see
anything that looked like it. To-day I flushed
her again from the same tree and looking more
carefully discovered the nest placed over a stout branch
directly against the main trunk about 15 ft [illus]
above the ground. I did not examine the nest.
Soon after the bird left it a Dove, perhaps the
same individual, began cooing in a peculiar
manner in the woods just above the Glacial
Hollow. I heard a Dove cooing near this nest
on April 4th (During the remainder of April I frequently
visited this nest and always found the bird sitting (the last visit was
on May 1st). She sat high & held her head & neck well up [illus]
She would usually fly if I stepped within 20 yds. & put my glass on her.
I did not examine the nest.)