Concord, Mass.
1905.
Summer Residents of our Place
  43. Crows: - More numerous than last year but
not yet back to normal numbers.
A nest on Ball's Hill & another in pines
on West Bedford slope opposite this hill. 
  44. Blue Jay: - Unusually numerous ranging
the woods in search of eggs in pairs
& occasionally in portions of three or four.
I think at least six pairs have bred
in our woods. I found a nest in May
on Ball's Hill.
  45. King bird: - Exceptionally scarce. A pair
nested in a bush on the meadow east
of Ball's Hill & another pair have
frequented the Ritchie place. None have
bred this year in the orchard at our
farm.
  46. Crested Flycatcher: - As usual a single pair
in the farm orchard. There was no nest
in the usual place but on June 18 I saw
the female enter a hole in an apple tree
lower down the hill. I have suspected
both last year & this that there was a
second pair breeding in Birch Field
where we often find the birds but they
wander so I cannot be sure they are
not our farm birds.