Concord, Mass.
1900.
June 10
  Brilliantly clear with S.W. wind. Cool for the season.
  Took the 9 A.M. train to Concord. Drove first to
Sleepy Hollow country to examine a nest of the Red-bellied
Nuthatch. It was about 20 ft. above the ground in the dead
top of a living gray birch which stands just inside the
fence on the left side & within a few feet of the main
entrance to the country. The entrance hole was very small
and neat being apparently as perfectly round & smooth as 
if it had been bound with a sharp bit. I could see no
pitch although the bark around the hole was smooth &
clean. I watched the tree for over ten minutes but no bird
came to the nest. When Miss Mary A. White found it
on May 30th one of the Nuthatches was taking "worms"
with it at short, regular intervals. & apparently feeding young.
(Miss White saw the bird enter the hole with this food at
least four times & emerge with empty bill). I suppose the
brood must have departed for the nest has evidently not
been disturbed. I hear that Dr. R has found a 
Red-bellied Nuthatch's in Needham, Mass. this season. It 
contained several young & two or three "fresh" (probably
infertile) eggs.
Sleepy Hollow
Nest of
Red-bellied
Nuthatch
  Spent the remainder of the forenoon driving through
the Estabrook woods & back to town by way of the
Barrett farm road. Saw three Indigo Birds perched
on telegraph wires singing & a Red-shouldered Hawk.
Heard a Wood Thrush near the Lime Kiln.
Estabrook
Road
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