Cambridge, Mass
1902.
June 14
  Our garden at Cambridge is literally swarming
with birds. Indeed I scarce remember ever seeing
so many there before (at least within recent years) as
I noted yesterday and to-day. There were more
than a dozen Robins (most of them young), several
Cedar Birds, two male Yellow Warblers singing and
a female feeding young on wing, a pair of Redstarts, a
pair of Red eyed Vireos (the female sitting on a nest
which contained three eggs on the point of hatching
and which was suspended from the end of a drooping
branch of one of the silver-leafed poplars in the Jungle),
a Yellow-throated Vireo (which is not, I think, established
on the place as I heard it singing only in the early
morning & but for a short time), a pair of Cat birds,
the female sitting on her nest in the smaller tree just
behind the house, a pair of Chippies feeding their
brood of young (reared in a nest in one of the blue
spruces on the lawn, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak which
has been singing in the garden constantly since May
& which doubtless has its nest there, a Yellow-billed
and a Black-billed Cuckoo, one or both of which
is also likely to be nesting on the place. (An Oriole singing on June 16)
  Walter Deane tells me that he has neither seen nor
heard the Flickers since about the time when they
were completing their nest in a dead limb (high up)
of one of the large apple trees near the head of the garden.
The King bird and Wood Thrush also disappeared
after spending several days. There are no Warbling
Vireos nor Purple Finches nesting in our neighborhood
this year & the only Least Flycatcher I know of is
in the garden of the Parker place on Craigie Street.
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