Concord, Mass.
(Ball's Hill)
1900.
May 10 
(No 2)
Orioles or Vireos and noted but one Grosbeak.
Of course those changes may have been due purely
to the local shifting about of the birds just
mentioned but I cannot believe that this was the case.
  As I have already said the small birds were
surprisingly tame today. Indeed they paid so little
attention to me that I frequently got within a 
yard or two of Chestnut-sided Warblers, Redstarts,
Maryland Yellow-throats & Creepers & sometimes I
nearly stepped on them as they were hopping about
on the ground under fallen or drooping branches.
A Wilson's Black-cap allowed me to approach within
five or six feet as he was hopping along a leafless
branch that extended over the path. Very many
birds came close about the cabin & at times
my wild flower garden was full of brilliantly
colored Warblers of several species. There were 
three Oven birds there at one time & they would 
scarcely get out of my way as I walked about
among the flowers.
Remarkable
tameness of
the smaller
migrants.
  In the afternoon, Gilbert found a Partridge's nest
with 12 eggs on Pine Ridge. It was under a small 
pine on the side of a deep, rather open hollow within 2 feet of a wood road.
The bird flushed at about 10 feet. Partridges are
 more numerous on my land this season than
I have ever known them to be in spring before.
(All the eggs were gone from this nest on the 13th.)
Partridge's 
nest, 12 eggs.
  A Robin was lining a nest in a little hemlock
near the wood shed this morning.
Robin lining
its nest
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