Concord, Mass.
1899.
May 22
  Clear and cool with E. wind. Ther. 46 [degrees] - 60 [degrees] - 48 [degrees].
  A marked decrease in the number of weather-bound
migrants at Ball's Hill but all the species seen there during
the past four days still represented. The Lincolns' Finch in
full song from 7 to 9 A.M. but not heard after this and not
seen at all to-day (he was gone next morning).
[margin]Weather-bound
migrants
thinning out.[/margin]
  Arrival. - 1 Wood Pewee singing at Davis's Hill.
[margin]Wood Peewee [sic]
arrives.[/margin]
  Paddled to Concord & back in the forenoon. The high water
while had prevailed for the past year he killed most of the grass
along the river and now that the water has fallen to a stage
unusually low for this season there are extensive flats of soft,
[?] mud. These have attracted great numbers of waders.
I saw to-day a Greater Yellow-legs (with a broken leg), 4 Solitary,
8 or 10 Spotted and about 8 Least Sandpipers. At evening a flock
of 9 Least Sandpipers came whirling over Ball's Hill.
[margin]High water
of last year
kills grass
along river &
forms mud-
flats which
attract many
waders.[/margin]
  I also saw this morning two Green Herons & a pair of Kingfishers.
Bobolinks appeared to be in their usual numbers. I heard at
least a dozen different males between Ball's Hill & Concord.
Two Tanagers were singing in Concord Village, one in the
one the Common the other in the hillside burying ground.
[margin]Bobolinks[/margin]
[margin]Tanagers in
Concord village[/margin]
  To the Barrett farm in the afternoon. Visited the Partridge's
nest & found the bird absent & all the eggs gone. No shells in
or near the nest & no feathers or trace of any struggle. It
looks as if some person had robbed the nest. The male Partridge
was drumming on the stone wall [?] by & I heard the
Ball's Hill & Davis Swamp birds drumming also. As all three
have been silent for a long time I cannot understand
their sudden renewal of the drumming unless all have lost their
eggs. Found an Oven birds' nest with 1 egg on Davis's Hill.
[margin]Partridge's
nest[/margin]
[margin]Partridges
drumming
freely again.[/margin]
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