Lancaster, Mass.
1902.
June 23
  The birds singing in the trees immediately about Miss Holman's
house this month have been: - Robins (3 pairs & 3 nests found)
Chippies (2 pairs, 2 nests found), Redstart 1, Yellow warbler 1, Red-eyed
Vireo 1, Yellow-throated Vireo 1, Warbling Vireo 1, Baltimore Oriole 1,
Least Flycatcher 1 (nest in maple, 25 ft.) Wood Pewee 1 (nest in same
fork of same elm where a pair nested last year.
  I find in my pocket note book the following data relating to
the Robin's nest on the head of one of the columns which support
the piazza roof, where a pair of Robins reared two broods last year
May 1.- female Robin sitting (Miss Forster)
May 16 - 3 young apparently just hatched (Miss Forster)
May 26 - 2 young left nest
May 27 - 3rd young left nest
May 28 - Female Robin seen to visit empty nest 6 or 8 times. She
brought nothing but entered nest & sitting low in it turned
slowly around a number of times - Miss Forster.
May 30. I saw a female Robin feeding young high in elm over piazza.
June 3rd & 4th Robin at work both days relining nest.
June 5 (9 A.M.) Robin began sitting again.
  A Chippy built her nest in a woodbine directly over the
entrance to our cottage. The first egg was laid on the 27th of May
and the bird began sitting on the morning of the 30th. The
young were first seen out of the nest on June 23 when they
were able to fly only a few yards. They called tsi-tsi,tsi-tsi
in liquid yet insistent tones all day long. I do not
know how many eggs there were nor when the young hatched.
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