1905
May 23
(No 2)
  Oven birds have been very numerous the past few days.
Some of them seem to be migrating, others settled &
preparing to breed. I frequently come across mated pairs
in dense woods flitting close to the ground, quivering their 
wings and making a low chirping or twittering te-to-te-
te-ta-te-te audible only a few yards away and suggesting
the cries of a very young bird. They also use the common
tsup note a good deal but they are singing only a
very little now.
  A Least Flycatcher's nest, found yesterday by Gilbert
in the orchard behind our farm house, is in a most
unusual position:- about seven feet above the ground, 
within eight inches of the extremity of a slender, drooping
branch of an apple tree. The branch extends out apart 
from any others and the nest is supported partly
by it but also by a cluster of lateral twigs the branch
at this point being scarce thicker than a lead pencil.
The nest is a large one & chiefly composed of whitish
fibre and is not as yet concealed by any foliage.
Indeed it is a most conspicuous object from
every side. I saw the bird go to it twice to-day.
When Gilbert found it an Oriole was tearing
at it & the Flycatcher was trying to drive
her away.