Concord, Mass.
1902.
June 19
  Cloudy with light S.W. wind and heavy rain in
P.M., clearing just before sunset.
  At about 5.30 A.m. I was awakened by
the clamorous cries of several small birds which were
evidently greatly excited about something. A Grosbeak
was especially vociferous keeping up a continuous shrill,
almost shrieking outcry. Gilbert, who was also aroused
by the sound, arose and looking out of his east window
saw a Crow fly from an oak just behind the
stone woodshed bearing a good-sized, grayish colored
object in his bill. It was perhaps a young Grosbeak.
Raid made by a Crow on the small birds nesting near the Cabin
  On making a tour of inspection some two hours
later I found the Robin's nest in the pine in front
of the wood shed undisturbed but the Red-eye's
nest had been torn forcibly from the fork which had
supported it and, empty and almost shapeless, lay in
the middle of the foot-path several yards from the
tree. I could discover no traces of the young or the
unhatched egg which it held last night but a number
of olivaceous-tipped feathers evidently from the back of 
the parent Vireo lay scattered about on the ground
or clung to the lining of the nest. They were so soaked
and matted with dew as to suggest that the deed
of violence had been committed at some time during
the night while the shreds of the nest which still 
adhered to the pine branch were disposed in such a
way as to lead me to think that the nest had
been pulled down from beneath, probably by the
cat whose tracks I found in the sandy path near
the cabin. The Blue Jay was sitting quietly on her nest at
7 A.M. nor did she join in the outcry at the earlier hour.
The Red-eye's nest at the cabin torn down, probably by a cat.
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