Concord, Mass.
1905.
Summer Residents of our Place.
  30. Cowbird: - Present in the usual numbers
but strangely inconspicuous (as usual) after 
the beginning of June.
  40. Red-winged Blackbird: - About six to eight
males singing along the river between Dakin's
& Davis Hills. This is a larger number
than I expected in view of the fact that
the birds were broken up by flocks in
June 1903 & 1904.
Meadow Lark on June 16 I heard a Lark in
the Bigelow Brook meadow opposite Rudolph
Peterson's house. This is as near our place
as they often (or ever) come.
  41. Baltimore Oriole: - A pair breeding in
Benson's elms, another at the rear of our
farm house (in an elm) a third in
Mr. Harris' elms. There are usually more
in this neighborhood. Last year we had
two nests at the farm very near the house.
The males of all the pairs just mentioned
sing exactly the same song & a peculiar song
it is. I do not hear it it except in this
neighborhood.
  42. Bronzed grackle: a pair nesting in the
lone white pine at West Bedford Station
& occasionally visiting Ball's Hill.