Concord, Mass.
Ball's Hill
1900.
May 13
  Clear with light S.W. wind. Extremes of temperature 51 degrees - 76 degrees
  Took a walk around Ball's Hill just after breakfast.
Birds were abundant but scattered. There seemed to
be no marked changes as compared with yesterday
excepting that most of the Yellow-rumps had apparently
departed. Later in the morning, however, I found a
small flock of three Warblers as well as a number 
of Usnea Warblers in the swampy woods across the
river.
  A Black & Yellow Warbler and a Blackburnian
were singing near the cabin.
  The Lincoln's Finch spent his third day with
us but I did not hear him sing this morning.
It has gradually dawned on me that he is 
the same individual which was here six consecutive
days last spring. At least like that bird he 
is darker-colored than most of his kind with
less buffy about the head. If my surmise is 
correct his remarkable tameness is accounted for
by the fact that he has not forgotten the
kind treatment he received from us last year.
Lincoln's
Finch.
  Gilbert saw two Yellow-billed Cuckoos (arrivals)
and a Green Heron to-day, all near the 
cabin. He visited his Partridge's nest on 
Pine Ridge in the afternoon & found all the
eggs gone (shells & all) although the nest was
not rumpled. It was within a few feet of the
roadway through the pines among some hay which
had fallen from Bensen's wagon.
Partridge's
nest despoiled
of its eggs.
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