Concord, Mass.
1902.
July 13
(No 2)
  On June 21st I found the nest of the Great-crested
Flycatchers at the farm, in the hollow branch of a small
wild apple tree. The light was poor and I could not see
into the cavity very well but the nest looked unfinished
and, indeed, seemed to consist merely of a shapeless mass
of dry grass. As I saw one of the birds fly to it
bearing a ripe cherry in her bill I concluded, however, that
there must be young. It seems that I was badly mistaken
for on visiting the nest this afternoon I found that
it was neatly lined with a profusion of feathers and
contained four or five young which could not have been
more than a few days old as they were very small and
only just beginning to show a scanty covering of pinfeathers.
The old birds were neither seen nor heard on this occasion.
Nest of Myiarchus with young.
  There were no less than eighteen Bats in the shed
at the farm house this afternoon. Glover M. Allen
who was with me identified them as the Large
Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus). He caught several of
them but they made no attempt to bite him. Many
of them were young some of which were clinging to
their mothers, none of the old females having more than
two each and some only one. About half the total
number present on this occasion were collected in
a cluster, the others being scattered about singly
something which I have never observed in this shed
before.
Bats in shed at the farm.
  The three young Phoebees in the nest in the stone
horse shed are fully two-thirds grown. Their father
sang for a few minutes near the cabin this evening.
Phoebee
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