Concord, Mass.
1899.
June
(h)
  The Barrett farm has been free, thus far, from the
presence of the obnoxious House Sparrows and during 
the present month it was literally swarming with birds.
During my visits I was nearly sure to hear closer to the house,
Robins, a Wood Thrush, Bluebirds, Cat birds, Brown Thrashers,
Chickadees, Black & White Creepers, Nashville, Golden-winged,
Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Black-throated Green and Pine Warblers, 
Redstarts, Maryland Yellow-throats, Oven birds, Red-eyed
and Yellow-throated Vireos, Purple Martins (visitors from the town)
Barn Swallows (none brooding in my buildings now although
there are two old nests in the barn) White-bellies (a pair
in Mrs Ritchie's orchard) Bank Swallows, Scarlet
Tanagers, Purple Finches, Goldfinches, a Grass Finch,
Chipping, Field and Song Sparrows, Towhees, (very numerous)
Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Indigo birds, Bobolinks, Cow birds,
Baltimore Orioles (several pairs nesting in the elms), Crows,
Blue Jays, Crested Flycatchers, Kingbirds, Phoebees, Wood,
Pewees, Least Flycatchers (about 3 pairs in the old orchard)
Chimney Swifts (several nests in my chimneys) Whippoorwills,
an occasional Hairy Woodpecker, Downy Woodpeckers (a nest
in the orchard last year but none found this), Flickers (a
pair nested in the big elm over the chimney), both
Yellow-billed & Black-billed Cuckoos, Screech Owls & an
occasional Red-shouldered or Red-tailed Hawk, while the 
drumming of a Partridge in the woods beyond the orchard
was often distinctly audible.
[margin]Bird at
Barrett farm[/margin]
 At least two & I thought three [male] Golden-winged Warblers
frequented the run and one or all of them frequently visited
the tall elms immediately about the house & sang there
for half an hour at a time.
  No Solitary Vireos nested any where on my grounds this year.
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