1902.
June 1
  Forenoon brilliantly clear and rather warm. Increasing
cloudiness in afternoon. Strong S.W. wind all day.
  I came to Concord yesterday afternoon to stay
at the cabin until to-morrow. Roland Haywood
spent last night and most of to-day with me.
We walked to Holden's Hill last evening. This forenoon
we went to the farm by way of Davis's Hill, Birch
Island and Lawrence's wood road returning via Birch Field
Davis's swamp and Pine Ridge. Birds were singing
freely all day and we noted a great many of most
of the species which pass the summer here, but all
the north-bound migrants seem to have departed.
Red-eyed Vireos are apparently scarce; we heard only
two or three during our long tramp. There also but 
few Cat-birds even along the river and the only Redstarts
we noted were one singing near the cabin and another
in the elms about the house at the farm. The
Crested Flycatcher was shouting in the orchard and
there were as many Orioles, Chippies, Robins, etc. there
as usual. The Hummingbird's nest in the elm looked
all right but there was no bird on it. We saw one,
however, darting away from a flower bed in the
garden. The young Phoebees have left the nest under the
eaves in the old barn and their father was in full
song again. The nest in the new barn cellar still had
the five cold eggs & is evidently deserted. The young
in the nest in the stone horse shed at Ball's Hill
are 2/3 grown & partly feathered. A Phoebee was sitting
on four eggs in a nest in the stone boat house across
the river yesterday afternoon.
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