Concord, Mass.
1900
May 12
(No 3)
  Five or six male Maryland Yellow-Throats spent
the afternoon on the ground in front of the 
cabin mingling with the Sparrows. They were 
so tame that we could almost catch them
in our hands. They were continuously quarreling 
among themselves, but they neither molested nor
were molested by the Sparrows. We photographed
several of them. They would hop around the 
camera within six or eight inches when it 
was placed on the ground. Something seemed to 
attract them to a space of a yard or two 
square where the millet had been strewn
but they currently did not touch it.
Ball's Hill 
Remarkable 
tameness of 
Maryland 
Yellow-throats
  Sometime after sunset as we were at tea
a small Hawk, probably a Sharp-shinned, 
pounced down into the bushes where the 
Sparrows and Maryland Yellow-throats were still
feeding making a loud crashing sound. Gilbert
ran to the door and saw the Hawk fly up into
a maple but it had nothing in its talons.
Sharp-shin 
Hawk 
misses its 
prey.
  Visiting Dakin's Hill this afternoon in 
quest of bird's foot violets I found five 
Greater Yellow-legs, a Solitary Sandpiper 
and two Spotted Sandpipers feeding on 
the mud flats at the mouth of the
brook.
Yellow Legs 
& other 
waders at 
Dakin's Hill.