Cambridge, Mass.
Garden Birds
1902.
August
(No 4)
Garden Birds.
  2. Hylocichla fuscescens. - One in our mulberry tree on the
afternoon of the 20th. I had a good
view of it and can see that it was a 
Wilson's Thrush - probably a migrant from
further north.
  3.  Galeoscoptes carolinensis. - Seen recently every day through the month.
The pair of old birds were seen together on
the 5th and 14th, one of the old birds with
a young one almost every day from the 1st
to the 27th. The young bird (there was but one
I think) was fed by its parents up to the 13th.
After this it seemed to shift for itself. It 
uttered the lisping or chirping call up to
about the 20th. On the 24th it began
calling week like an old bird. The adult
male Cat-bird has not been heard singing
this month. The young of the first bird
disappeared before the close of July & has
not been seen since.
  4. Parus atricapillus. - August 2, 1; August 4, 1; August 10, 1 in full song; August 20, 1 in full song; August 23, 1 in full song; August 30, 1 in full song
  5. Mniotilta varia. - On the afternoon of the 15th two birds
appeared together in one of the apple trees. Both
were males & I think adult.
  6. Dendroica aestiva. - August 1, 1 in full song; August 2, 1 in full song; August 4, 1 in full song; August 5, 1 in full song; August 6, 1 in full song (2 juveniles seen); August 7, 1 in full song; August 8, 1 in full song; August 9, 1 in full song; August 20, 1 in full song;
 August 21, 1 juvenile; August 22, 1 juvenile. All the birds heard singing were, 
I think, adults but their songs were feeble
& listless. Probably our local birds departed
about the 10th for during the following ten
days no Yellow Warblers were noted here.
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