Concord, Mass.
"The Farm"
1900
May 18 
(No 2)
  At 8 A.M. I drove to the farm where I spent
two hours. The woods, thickets & orchards were swarming
with birds among which was Parula, Blackburnian, Black &
Yellow, Black-poll & Black-throated Blue Warblers, Redstarts, 
and Water Thrushes. From beneath a fallen elm branch
directly in front of the barn I started a Lincoln's Finch
and an adult White-throated Sparrow. The Lincoln's was 
very tame & I got a clear view of him at a 
distance of less than 20 feet.
Lincoln's F.
White cr. Sp.
 But the best bird of all remains to be mentioned.
I was standing behind the house when in an 
apple tree covered with snowy blossoms a short distance
off I heard a Warbler sing several times in quick
succession & by its notes at once recognized it as
a Cape May. On hurrying to the tree I found the
bird at the end of a low branch hopping about
among the tufts of blossoms which it was probing
with its bill after the manner of an Oriole. I
watched it closely for 15 or 20 minutes during which
time it remained on the branch where I first 
saw it. (Abbott Thayer says that this species will often 
spend a whole day in one tree & this I remember
observing in a blossoming cherry tree at Watertown, Mass.
in 1869). It was more active than a Black-poll, less
so than most other Warblers. It was very tame. Its
plumage was of about average brightness. Its song 
was Zeet, Zeet, Zeet, Zeet, very like a Black-poll's but
louder and more vigorous in quality. I left the
bird in his beautiful setting of apple blossoms.
Cape May
Warbler at
the farm.
  Two Wood Thrushes were in full continuous
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