Concord, Massachusetts.
1899.
Oct. 12-31
(d)
  The presceding [sic] summary, as well as the notes which
follow, was compiled from my field list and pocket diary
for I kept not field journal this autumn.
  Sialis sialis. - Bluebirds were more numerous about Concord
this autumn than they have been at any time within
the past five or six years. Nor was their abundance confined
to this one locality for, as already mentioned, I saw upwards
of fifty birds while driving from Peterboro (N.H.) to Groton (Mass.)
on the 8th and an equal number between Groton &
Lexington on the 10th. Their numbers remained undiminished
at Concord up the the 22nd after which I noted the
species only on the 24th & 26th getting no November records
this year although I was in the field constantly during
the first ten days of the latter month.
[margin]Abundance of
Bluebirds[/margin]
  On October 13th I saw four Bluebirds in company with
a number of Robins & Yellow-rumps eating mountain ash
berries in the tree at the Keyes place. The weather at the
time was clear & warm.
[margin]Eating berries
of Mountain ash[/margin]
  Sitta canadensis. - There was a heavy flight of Canada
Nuthatches this autumn. Just when they reached the
Concord region I do not know but there were abundant
there during the whole of my stay. I saw them in orchards
& about houses on sevral [sic] occasions but oftenest & in the
greatest numbers in pitch or white pine woods never more
than three or four together although they frequently associated
with Chickadees, Kinglets and Brown Creepers. I repeatedly
observed them extracting seeds from hemlock cones and
carrying them to the trunks of rough-barked deciduous trees
where they tamped them firmly into cracks or crevices rarely
depositing more than a single seed in any one place.
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