Concord, Mass.
1902.
July 6
(No 2) 
  As I was returning from a walk at 11 A.M.,
following the river path, I flushed a Woodcock on the
south side of Ball's Hill from a dense bed of weeds
by the side of the path directly in front of the new
cabin. It flew only a few yards before alighting under 
an oak where it stood for a moment watching me and
then rising a second time pitched down again still
higher up on the hill side where I saw it run a few yards
before it disappeared among some bushes.
Woodcock on Ball's Hill
  Swifts have been in our cabin chimney almost
constantly this season since May 13. Although it is scarce
twenty feet in height a brisk wood fire on the hearth
below does not seem to disturb them in the least.
On June 21st we found a nest & 2 eggs lying on the
hearth. It had probably been washed down by a 
heavy rain which fell the day before. To-day Gilbert
walked down into the chimney from the roof and 
discovered that the birds had built a second nest
which contained two eggs.
Swifts nesting in the cabin chimney
  On the 12th of last May I examined two Chickadees'
nests on the shore of the river, some about 50 yards west
of the cabin, the other some 75 yards to the eastwards of it.
Both contained eggs on that day. They were successfully
hatched and the young left the nests early in June. I
saw them in the nests on June 1 where they were 2/3 grown.
Gilbert found them gone a week or so later.
  To-day I discovered a nest in a birch stand directly in
front of Gilbert's cabin. It evidently contained young
for I saw one of the Chickadees enter it a number of
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